Mathematician Luke Durant Breaks Record with the Largest Known Prime Number 🔢

Meet Luke Durant – a 36-year-old researcher and former NVIDIA engineer who just discovered the largest known prime number 2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹–1.…and it’s a mind-boggling 41 million digits long! 🧑‍💻🔍 Using the free program GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), Luke tapped into thousands of GPUs across 24 data centers in 17 countries to find this mathematical marvel.

This isn’t just any prime; it’s the 52nd Mersenne prime, a rare type named after French polymath Marin Mersenne, who created a formula for identifying these massive numbers. 📐✨

While some may question the value of such discoveries, remember—just decades ago, prime numbers played no role in practical applications. Now? They’re the backbone of modern cryptography! 🔒✨ Luke’s work reminds us that innovation often starts where we least expect it.

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