Record-Breaking Prime Number, 41 Million Digits Long, Blows Mathematicians’ Minds ...

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number ...

A GIMPS survey has discovered a prime number with over 41 million digits, surpassing the previous record-holder by more than 16 million digits.

That certainly hasn’t stopped mathematicians —both professional and amateur—from trying to ferret out new ones. In fact, in 1996, computer scientist George Woltman started a project known as the Great ...

Final confirmation came the next day when an Nvidia H100 in San Antonio ran a definitive Lucas-Lehmer primality test. This 41-million-digit number is the 52nd known "Mersenne prime," which is a ...

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Many other approaches to discovering the primes for a given field have been developed, including the Sieve of Atkin and fascinating approaches to probabilistic testing of primality like the Miller ...

After Durant notified GIMPS of his possible breakthrough, several other computers around the world conducted multiple Lucas-Lehmer primality tests to ensure M136279841’s prime-ness, leading to ...

To test this prime number, GIMPS first performs a Fermat Primality Test, which can tell you whether the number is likely to be a prime. The new prime passed, but unfortunately, there are a small ...