Largest known prime number - Wikipedia
A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 with no divisors other than 1 and itself. Euclid's theorem proves that for any given prime number, there will always be a higher one, …
Mersenne Prime Discovery - 2^136279841-1 is Prime!
3 days ago · It is over 16 million digits larger than the previous record prime number, in a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes. It is only the 52nd known …
The Largest Known Primes - PrimePages
4 days ago · Home page for the lists of the largest known primes. Updated hourly, these pages contain research, records and results, on primes numbers, their discoverers and the software …
A 41-million-digit prime number is the biggest ever found
Nov 14, 2024 · Professor John Voight from the University of Sydney looks at the most recent discovery of a Mersenne prime number, the largest yet found, and ponders the beauty of the …
Largest Known Prime Number Discovered - Letterly Journal
Luke Durant found the largest prime number in October of 2024. It contains 41,024,320 digits. The number was 2136279841-1 on GIMPS. Luke Durant, a 36-year-old NVIDIA employee, used …
Amateur mathematician finds the new largest prime number
Nov 7, 2024 · Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the …
An Amateur Just Found The Largest Prime Number Ever
Oct 24, 2024 · Amateur number detective Luke Durant (a researcher and former employee of the software company NVIDIA) recently found the biggest prime ever discovered: 2 136,279,841 …