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The study of prime numbers is not just a historical curiosity. Number theory is also essential to modern cryptography.

First, it's a prime number (meaning it is only divisible by itself and one). Second, it's what is called a Mersenne prime (we'll get to what that means). And third, it is to date the largest prime ...

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 minus one.

A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former Nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units.

Thousands of computers across the world are currently scouring the number line in a scavenger hunt for rare mathematical gems. Enthusiasts looking for larger and larger prime numbers, which are ...

Record For Largest Known Prime Number Broken By Amateur Mathematician Using Free Software It is the 52nd Mersenne prime to be found since they were first studied over 350 years ago.

The largest known prime number has been discovered, smashing the previous record by more than 16 million digits.

This ginormous number has a whopping 41,024,320 digits, which isn’t very helpful for mathematicians but is certainly exciting for math nerds.