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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 ...
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Largest prime number (so far) found
When both N and n are prime numbers, however, N is called a Mersenne prime, a number very rare and difficult to find on the number line - even by supercomputers clocking hundreds of trillions of ...
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Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software
The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 ...