IFLScience on MSN1 个月
Record For Largest Known Prime Number Broken By Amateur Mathematician Using Free Software
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) looks for these Mersenne primes, allowing anyone to download software and ...
WHDH25 天
Record-breaking prime number containing more than 41 million digits found by former Nvidia ...
The historic finding is classified as a Mersenne prime, which is named after the French monk Marin Mersenne, who studied these numbers more than 350 years ago. Mersenne primes are a rare kind of ...
Yahoo News1 个月
Largest prime number ever found spans 41 million digits, sets new world record
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 ...
Indiatimes23 天
Former Nvidia programmer discovers world's largest prime number
His discovery, named M136279841, spans 41,024,320 digits and is the 52nd known Mersenne prime, highlighting advancements in computational capabilities. "I recognized that the GIMPS community has ...