Mersenne primes are important for other reasons. “The historical record of the world’s largest prime tells us something about the historical capability of computers, and in particular it tells ...

The study of prime numbers is not just a historical curiosity. Number theory is also essential to modern cryptography.

Second, it's what is called a Mersenne prime (we'll get to what that means). And third, it is to date the largest prime number ever discovered in a mathematical quest with a history going back ...

Luke Durant, a 36 year-old researcher and former NVIDIA employee, used a free program, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), to identify the new prime through an advanced algorithm. The ...

The last 18 Mersenne primes have been found by GIMPS, and now 36-year-old researcher and former NVIDIA employee Luke Durant ...

It’s been nearly six years since math devotees discovered the last largest known prime number, but the bar has officially been raised by over 16 million digits. On October 21, the Great Internet ...

the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), to identify the new prime through an advanced algorithm. The largest known prime number now is 2136,279,841-1, having 41,024,320 decimal digits.

The amateur mathematician found the new largest prime number dubbed “M136279841 ... there is a class called Mersenne primes of the form 2 P-1, named after 16th Century French monk Marin ...

A relative newcomer to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has broken a six-year drought in the search for the next prime oasis in a desert of boring ol' composite numbers, reports ...

The discovery of the largest prime number ever found has just been announced to the world. 2 136,279,841-1, known as M136279841, was found by amateur “prime-hunter” Luke Durant on October 11, 2024.