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Oct 23, 2024

Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software

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The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee.

The new number is 2136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (282,589,933 – 1) by more than 16 million digits.

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