An amateur mathematician from San Jose, US, has discovered the largest prime number yet with over 41 million digits.. Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, are divisible only by ...

Durant’s use of GPUs, starting in October 2023, quickly made him the most prolific prime pioneer using software from Woltman’s group. He used servers in 17 countries across 24 data centers and on two ...

Called M136279841, the value belongs to a rare class of prime numbers called Mersenne primes and was found using a supercomputer system spread across 17 countries. Skip to main content.