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NVIDIA Computer Finds Largest Known Prime, Blows Past Record by 16 Million Digits

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A researcher and former NVIDIA employee has found 2136,279,841 -1, the largest known prime number.

Luke Durant used a supercomputer comprised of thousands of GPUs in 17 different countries to find the number.

The figure is only the 52nd known Mersenne prime, a special class of prime numbers.

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