{"id":262845,"date":"2024-10-22T14:29:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/amateur-sleuth-finds-largest-known-prime-number-with-41-million-digits\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:46","slug":"amateur-sleuth-finds-largest-known-prime-number-with-41-million-digits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/amateur-sleuth-finds-largest-known-prime-number-with-41-million-digits\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is a new largest known prime<\/p>\n

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After a six-year drought, we now have a new largest known prime number, thanks to an amateur mathematics sleuth who deployed an army of graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch through the possibilities.<\/p>\n

Prime numbers are those divisible only by 1 and themselves, such as 2, 3 and 5.\u00a0 There are an infinite number of primes, but proving which numbers are actually prime becomes harder the larger they get. We can now add 2136,279,841<\/sup>-1 to the list, which at 41,024,320 decimal digits<\/a> long\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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