I already knew of this #regex that tests for #PrimeNumbers but in case you haven’t, then you’re one of the lucky (#xkcd) 10000!

https://youtu.be/5vbk0TwkokM

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When technology meets mathematics: The A100 GPU powers the discovery of the latest giant in the prime number world! 🚀💻✨🔍💡🧮💥🎉

The "new" largest prime was discovered today (October 21, 2024)! It's a Mersenne prime \( (2^p-1 )\), which is easier to find because it can utilize a specialized "faster" primality test (known as LLT, i.e., Lucas-Lehmer test). On October 11, an NVIDIA A100 GPU in Dublin, Ireland, reported that M136279841 is probably prime. On October 12, an NVIDIA H100 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, confirmed primality with a Lucas-Lehmer test.

\[\Huge 2^{136,279,841}-1\]

It took nearly 6 years for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS )software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.

#Prime #PrimeNumber #LargestPrime #LargestKnownPrime #MersennePrimeA100 #TensorCore #LLT #LucasLehmerTest #PrimalityTest #GPGPUs #GIMPS

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