A 36-year-old man, who earlier worked as a programmer for Nvidia, spent around a year of his life and invested a considerable amount of money to discover the… Article Source https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/former-nvidia-programmer-discovers-prime-number-containing-more-than-41-million-digits-6926165
One year, 41 million digits: How he found the largest known prime number The Washington Post Article Source https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/10/23/nvidia-prime-mersenne-gpu-cloud/
A former Nvidia engineer has found the largest known prime number – a whopping 41 million digits long – using an A100 GPU made by his previous workplace to do the grunt work. This wasn’t the CPU-heavy hunt for primes that we’ve typically… Article Source https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/41_million_digit_prime/
Move aside 282,589,933-1, there’s a new prime juggernaut in town. That’s right: A researcher and former NVIDIA employee has found 2136,279,841-1, the largest known prime number, which clears the… Article Source https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-computer-finds-largest-known-prime-blows-past-record-by-16-million-digits-2000514948