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

Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mersenne primes, noted for their rarity ... "The historical record of the world's largest prime tells us something about the historical capability of computers and the progress of humanity ...

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 ...

SHAPIRO: We'll note that Mersenne primes are a special kind of ... and see if that can accelerate time to the newest, largest prime number. SUMMERS: Durant built a really large computer made ...