New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer

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New prime just dropped.

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a group of volunteers who search for prime numbers that are (2 to the power of x)-1, said that 2136279841-1 has been confirmed as the largest known prime number — that is,…

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