Largest known prime number - Wikipedia
The largest known prime number is 2 136,279,841 − 1, a number which has 41,024,320 digits when written in the decimal system. It was found on October 12, 2024, on a cloud-based virtual machine volunteered by Luke Durant to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).
List of largest known primes and probable primes - Wikipedia
The table below lists the largest currently known prime numbers and probable primes (PRPs) as tracked by the PrimePages and by Henri & Renaud Lifchitz's PRP Records. Numbers with more than 2,000,000 digits are shown.
The Biggest Prime Number Ever Found Is a New Milestone in …
2024年11月18日 · And third, it is to date the largest prime number ever discovered in a mathematical quest with a history going back more than 2,000 years. The discovery that this number (known as M136279841 for short) is a prime was made on October 12 by Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher from San Jose, California.
Largest prime number spans 41 million digits, sets new world …
2024年10月27日 · An amateur mathematician has discovered the largest known prime number, a colossal 41 million digits long, using freely available software. The new prime number is the 52nd known Mersenne prime,...
A 41-million-digit prime number is the biggest ever found
2024年11月14日 · 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 infinite, with practical uses in cryptography.
Largest known prime number - Simple English Wikipedia, the …
The largest known prime number is the biggest known integer which is a prime number. To date, it equals 2 136279841 − 1 , [ 1 ] it would take 41,024,320 digits to write that entire number out. The number was found on October 12, 2024
What is the largest known prime number? - Live Science
2024年10月23日 · Currently, the largest known prime number is 2 136,279,841 – 1. To calculate this number, multiply 2 by itself 136,279,841 times, and then subtract 1.
Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number
2024年10月24日 · On October 21, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a global community project dedicated to finding these incomprehensibly huge numbers, confirmed the 52nd Mersenne prime number is...
Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, …
2024年10月22日 · The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2...
Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 …
2024年10月22日 · After a six-year drought, we now have a new largest known prime number, thanks to an amateur mathematics sleuth who deployed an army of graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch through the...
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