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Largest prime number ever found spans 41 million digits, sets new world record | An amateur mathematician has discovered the largest known prime number, a colossal 41 million digits long, using freely available software.
An amateur mathematician has discovered the largest known prime number, a colossal 41 million digits long, using freely available software.
Durant’s work involved harnessing thousands of GPUs across 24 data centers in 17 countries—a monumental effort that, as noted in a GIMPS statement, “ends the 28-year reign of ordinary personal computers finding these huge prime numbers.” Durant began contributing to GIMPS in October 2023, recognizing the rapid growth of GPU availability in the cloud as a unique opportunity for the software developed by Mihai. Within a few years, Ernst Mayer developed a program that could run on various non-Intel processors, playing a crucial role in independently verifying nearly every GIMPS prime.
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