A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 with no divisors other than 1 and itself. Euclid's theorem proves that for any given prime number, there will always be a higher one, …

1 day ago · It is over 16 million digits larger than the previous record prime number, in a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes. It is only the 52nd known …

Oct 24, 2024 · It’s been nearly six years since math devotees discovered the last largest known prime number, but the bar has officially been raised by over 16 million digits.

Nov 14, 2024 · Professor John Voight from the University of Sydney looks at the most recent discovery of a Mersenne prime number, the largest yet found, and ponders the beauty of the …

Nov 7, 2024 · Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the …

Nov 1, 2024 · A prime with 41 million digits won’t immediately join the ranks of useful numbers, but for now it adds a feather in the cap of a community that longs to apprehend the colossal.

Oct 27, 2024 · An amateur mathematician has discovered the largest known prime number, a colossal 41 million digits long, using freely available software.

Oct 23, 2024 · On October 11, an NVIDIA A100 GPU in Dublin, Ireland, flagged M136279841 as a potential prime number using the Fermat probable prime test.

2 days ago · Home page for the lists of the largest known primes. Updated hourly, these pages contain research, records and results, on primes numbers, their discoverers and the software …

Oct 24, 2024 · A massive discovery has sparked calculated excitement in the maths world: the record for the highest prime number ever has been broken. A prime number can only be …