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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 30262274" data-attributes="member: 562115">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.Luke is currently GIMPS' most prolific contributor. He is joined by thousands of volunteers using free GIMPS software available at <a href="https://www.mersenne.org/download/" target="_blank">www.mersenne.org/download/</a>.The new prime number, also known as M136279841, is calculated by multiplying together 136,279,841 twos, and then subtracting 1. It is over 16 million digits larger than the <a href="https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M82589933" target="_blank">previous record prime number</a>, in a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes. It is only the 52nd known Mersenne prime ever discovered, each increasingly more difficult to find. Mersenne primes were named for the French monk <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Mersenne" target="_blank">Marin Mersenne</a>, who studied these numbers more than 350 years ago. GIMPS, founded in 1996, has discovered the last 18 Mersenne primes. Volunteers download a free program to search for these primes, with a $3000 award offered to anyone lucky enough to find a new prime. Prof. Chris Caldwell founded an authoritative web site on <a href="https://t5k.org/" target="_blank">the largest known primes</a> which is now maintained by volunteers, and has an excellent <a href="https://t5k.org/mersenne/index.html" target="_blank">history of Mersenne primes</a>.Further info:  <a href="https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841" target="_blank">https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841</a></blockquote>

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