There is a new largest known prime number
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After a six-year drought, we now have a new discovery of the largest known prime number, thanks to amateur math sleuths deploying a slew of graphics processing units (GPUs) to uncover possibilities.
A prime number is a number that is divisible only by 1 and itself, such as 2, 3, and 5. There are an infinite number of prime numbers, but proving which numbers are actually prime becomes more difficult as the number gets larger. You can now add 2136,279,841Adding -1 to the list gives 41,024,320 decimal digits…
