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New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer (sherwood.news)

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According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 55 points 3 weeks ago

To save you a click: 2^136,279,841^-1

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

Formatting is off.

2^136,279,841 - 1

2 to the power of something, then subtract one to make it an odd number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure that's the telephone number of a flat in Islington where I once went to a party...

[-] CkrnkFrnchMn@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah...they called but I told them it wasn't you.

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