sus@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineerEnglish
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1 month agothat does happen to be one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes.
And searching for mersenne primes happens to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)
also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia