#mersenne primes

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"December Geometry: 1---Butterfly Fractal Resonance," digital, 2023, Reginald Brooks

[bobo-razzmatazz]

NEW MERSENNE PRIME JUST DROPPED! THIS IS NOT A DRILL, THERE IS A NEW MERSENNE PRIME, 2^136279841 - 1 IS NOW THE LARGEST KNOWN PRIME NUMBER!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Discovery of the 52nd known Mersenne Prime.

New record sized prime, the 52nd known Mersenne prime

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

What is the largest consecutive prime number?  I mean, what is the largest prime for which we know whether all the numbers less than it are prime or not?  The largest known primes is 2^82589933 -1, which is 24,862,048 digits long.  The second largest known prime is 2^77232917 -1, which is 23,249,425 million digits long.  That means they’re 1,612,623 orders of magnitude apart, which is an unfathomably large gap; a million billion trillion quadrillions is only 46 orders of magnitude.  The number of particles in the observable universe is only around 80 orders of magnitude.  There are countless primes between these two that we just haven’t discovered yet, so what’s the highest number that we’ve discovered all the primes up to?

[lthmath]

A History of Mathematics | September

A History of Mathematics | September

We have decided to share more interesting facts from the history of mathematics. We started this in August and it was a great way to find out more about some great mathematicians, but also remind ourselves about some great mathematical concepts. We are continuing with the same idea in September. Hope you will like these posts!

Sometimes it is very interesting to see how the life of other people…

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[mindblowingscience]

FedEx Employee Discovers Largest Known Prime Number Containing a Staggering 23 Million Digits

The new record-holding prime number, dubbed “M77232917,” was discovered by Jonathan Pace, a 51-year-old electrical engineer living in Germantown, Tennessee, on December 26, 2017.

Using a computer powered by an off-the-shelf Intel Core i5-6600 processor, a FedEx employee from Tennessee has discovered the largest prime number known to humanity. At 23,249,425 digits long, it’s nearly a million digits longer than the previous record holder.

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[teratosapphic]

hey nyall should go help out with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search and do something semi important and brag to your friends that you helped do a math thing once

its freeeeeeeeeee

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"December Geometry: 2---Butterfly Fractal Resonance," digital, 2023, Reginald Brooks

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"December Geometry: 13---Butterfly Fractal Resonance," digital + acrylic & ink, 2023, Reginald Brooks