[ExI] 3.4 seconds

[spike at rainier66.com]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 01:44, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> >
wrote:

> Woohoooo!  GIMPS announced today that a new Mersenne prime has been found:

> https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841

> 

>>. We were in a really long Mersenne prime drought.  Six years since the
last discovery.

> Congratulations everyone!

> 

> spike

> _______________________________________________

 

 

>.Article explains how Nvidia GPUs have taken over the computing tasks from
Intel CPUs.

<https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/41_million_digit_prime/>

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BillK

 

 

 

BillK, the size of the largest known prime number was the same for about six
years, then Monday it jumped to a new record.  If you take the size of the
two numbers over the time between discovery, you could say the size of the
largest known prime doubled every 3.4 seconds during those six years.

 

spike

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