Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.

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.

Related: How many atoms are in the observable universe? Currently, the largest known prime number is 2 136,279,841 – 1. To calculate this number, multiply 2 by itself 136,279,841 times, and then ...

Now, Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher and former employee of tech giant NVIDIA, has discovered the 52nd Mersenne prime, which also happens to be the largest prime number known to ...

The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, it comes to ...

The largest prime number ever discovered has been found by an amateur mathematician using Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Prime numbers, as you likely learned in school, are numbers ...