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Record-breaking prime number containing more than 41 million digits found by former Nvidia programmer
Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number ...
A 41-million-digit prime number is the biggest ever found—but mathematicians' search for perfection will continue
Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into ...
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World's largest known prime number discovered – and it's a doozy
The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, its shorthand ...
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A Prime Number, With 41,024,320 Digits, Discovered By Ex Nvidia Programmer
A 36-year-old man, who earlier worked as a programmer for Nvidia, spent around a year of his life and invested a considerable amount of money to discover the world's largest known prime number.
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A former Nvidia employee discovered the world's largest known prime number and all it took was some free software and a few thousand datacenter GPUs
With the help of just a few thousand graphics cards spread across 17 countries' datacenters and some free software, Durant discovered the world's largest known prime number: 2 136,279,841-1.
Former Nvidia programmer discovers world's largest prime number
Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer, identified the world's largest known prime number after nearly a year of ...