A collaborative computer project has discovered the largest known prime number. The new prime number is nearly one million digits larger than the previous record prime number, in a special class ...

In 2017, however, a developer named Mihai Preda designed an open-source program called GpuOwl to continue the Mersenne prime research through these muc-improved machines.

Record-Breaking Prime Number, 41 Million Digits Long, Blows Mathematicians’ Mind The discovery of a new prime number highlights the rising price of mathematical gold ...