worlds largest prime number now has more than 4 crore digits 6 year old record broken

Worlds Larget Prime Number: A 36 -year -old programmer, who has worked in Tech Company NVIDIA, has discovered the world’s largest known prime number (Worlds Larget Known Prime Number). It took him a year and spent a lot of money. Citing CNN’s report, NDTV wrote that Luke Duunt has discovered this. Its official name is ‘M136279841’, which has 41,024,320 numbers. The largest unusable number was discovered 6 years ago and that record is now broken.

The prime number is an absolute number, which can be divided by only 1 or by itself. Such as 2, 3, 5, 7, etc. This historical discovery of California, a resident of California, has been cleared as Mercen Prime. The name is named after French monk Marin Mercene. He studied these numbers 350 years ago.

According to the report, Mercen Prime is quite rare and hence the discovery of Duant becomes even more important. If you explain in easy language, to consider a number as a Mercen Prime, it has to be written as ‘2ᵖ-1’ and the discovery of Durant is sitting in this sense.

It is also interesting that the prime numbers are used for internet security in some applications. At the same time, Mercene prime numbers are important for other reasons. The report quoted Dr. Kevin Bazard, Professor of Pure Maithitics at Imperial College, London, as saying that finding the world’s largest unique number has also been discovered by the computer’s ability.

Significantly, such numbers cannot be discovered with human mind. The help of Gimps is taken in this work. It was established in the year 1999. This project runs on a network of volunteers and finds large Mercen Prime numbers with the help of a computer.

Durant also told Gimps about his discovery. Then the volunteers around the world tested the computer to find out the results. After that the number was considered confirmed. This is the first such Mercene Prime Number, which was discovered using the computer’s GPU.

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