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Mathematician Ken Ono honored as Cozzarelli award finalist for groundbreaking work on prime numbers Grant and Award Announcement. University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences ...

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Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number in nearly six years.

A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former Nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units. Viola Lopes ...

A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former Nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units.

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — For many people, prime numbers have faded into the background since distant grade school days. However, for Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer ...

The amateur mathematician found the new largest prime number dubbed “M136279841”, calculated by multiplying together 136,279,841 twos, and then subtracting 1.

A new prime number has been discovered that is more than 16 million digits larger than the largest prime number ever found. The number is 2^136279841-1, which is 41,024,320 decimal digits and ...

Proving numbers are prime gets really interesting. With smaller primes, say 11, it's an easy task. Simply divide it by all the smaller integers (1-10) and see if you are left with any integers.