ASMS Graduate Discovers The Largest Known Prime Number
The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former nvidia employee. The great internet mersenne prime search (gimps) project has found the 52nd mersenne prime number m136279841, six years after the discovery of the 51st: Former nvidia programmer luke durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long. (wpmi) — an alabama school of mathematics and science graduate recently discovered the largest known prime number. Researcher luke durant found.
A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units. The largest prime number known to man has recently been uncovered with the help of former nvidia software engineer luke durant and the great internet mersenne prime.
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