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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

2 points| gpcr1949 | 1 year ago |mersenne.org

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dasnab|1 year ago

This is likely to be a record-breaking prime (largest prime number discovered so far), and the first one in 6 years - and according to the GIMPS forum, probably the first record-breaking prime discovered using a GPU :)

Exciting times!