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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The next day, an NVIDIA H100 in San Antonio confirmed the finding with a primality test called the Lucas-Lehmer test, per the statement. After some debate, GIMPS opted to use October 12 as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Luke Durant, a former Nvidia employee from San Jose, California gained one of the rarer accomplishments in mathematics. With the help of just a few thousand graphics cards ...

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 ...

He ultimately chose to prioritize his discovery, recognizing its importance. To confirm the primality of a number, GIMPS ...

然后一旦GIMPS服务器收到可能是素数的通知，就会使用不同程序在不同硬件上运行多个确定性的卢卡斯-莱默素性检验法（Lucas–Lehmer primality test ...