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Meet the largest known prime: it’s got 41 million digits and was calculated using GPUs

As of October 2024, we have found the biggest prime number we know of — and it took almost 6 years to find it. To generate this number, you multiply 2 by itself 136,279,841 times (resulting in an ...

This Guy Found a Faster Way to Multiply—Because the One You Know Is Ridiculously Slow

Mathematicians have proven the existence of a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, making multiplication and other ...