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Oct 23, 2024 · Fundamentals
World’s Largest Known Prime Discovered Using GPUs: 2^136279841−1
A former Nvidia engineer, working through the GIMPS distributed project and leveraging thousands of GPUs across dozens of data centers, confirmed that 2^136279841−1—a 41,024,320‑digit Mersenne prime—is the largest known prime ever found, surpassing the previous record by over 1.6 million digits.
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