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New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer (sherwood.news)
submitted 1 month ago by gedaliyah to c/technology
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According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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[–] FlyingSquid 69 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is it 3?

I bet it's 3.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My money's on 4.

[–] RelativeArea0 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I go with 6? I kinda like 6

[–] credo 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, but I bet it’s multiple of 6!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

oh buddy, I ... I've got terrible news for you ...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Half-Life 2136279841-1 confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Almost certainly a multiple of 2 minus one