The largest known prime number is 2 136,279,841 − 1, a number which has 41,024,320 digits when written in the decimal system. It was found on October 12, 2024, on a cloud-based virtual machine volunteered by Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher from San Jose, California, to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).

The table below lists the largest currently known prime numbers and probable primes (PRPs) as tracked by the PrimePages and by Henri & Renaud Lifchitz's PRP Records. Numbers with more than 2,000,000 digits are shown.

1 天前 · BLOWING ROCK, NC, October 21, 2024-- The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2 136,279,841-1, having 41,024,320 decimal digits. Luke Durant, from San Jose, California, found the prime on October 12th.

2024年11月1日 · Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number in nearly six years.

2024年10月27日 · An amateur mathematician has discovered the largest known prime number, a colossal 41 million digits long, using freely available software.

The largest known prime number is the biggest known integer which is a prime number. To date, it equals 2 136279841 − 1 , [ 1 ] it would take 41,024,320 digits to write that entire number out. The number was found on October 12, 2024

2024年10月22日 · The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2...

2024年11月7日 · Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then...

2024年10月23日 · Currently, the largest known prime number is 2 136,279,841 – 1. To calculate this number, multiply 2 by itself 136,279,841 times, and then subtract 1.

2024年10月24日 · Amateur number detective Luke Durant (a researcher and former employee of the software company NVIDIA) recently found the biggest prime ever discovered: 2 136,279,841 -1, now also known as...