An Amateur Just Found The Largest Prime Number Ever
The discovery of the largest prime number ever found has just been announced to the world. 2 136,279,841 -1, known as M136279841, was found by amateur “prime-hunter” Luke Durant on October 11, 2024. This is only the 52 nd Mersenne Prime—a type of prime number that can be expressed as 2 p -1—ever discovered,