In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

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Many of the largest known primes follow this format. While not always true, number theorists realized that the (2 p - 1) shortcut often produces primes and gives a systematic way to search for large ...

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In a remarkable achievement, 36-year-old Luke Durant, a former programmer for Nvidia, has spent nearly a year and a substantial investment of his resources to discover the world's largest known ...

Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer, identified the world's largest known prime number after nearly a year of effort. His discovery, named M136279841, spans 41,024,320 digits and ...

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.