The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) ha scoperto il più grande numero primo conosciuto, composto da 41,024,320 cifre decimali. BLOWING ROCK, NC, 21 ottobre 2024 — La Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) ha scoperto il più grande numero primo conosciuto, 2136.279.841-1, con 41.024.320 cifre decimali. Luke Durant, di
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2136279841-1 is the New Largest Known Prime Number
Luke Durant & The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) discovered the largest known prime number, having 41,024,320 decimal digits. BLOWING ROCK, NC, October 21, 2024 — The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2136,279,841-1, having 41,024,320 decimal digits. Luke Durant, from San
New Mersenne Prime has just been found (probably)!
October 12, 2024 — A participating GIMPS computer reported a successful Fermat probable prime test to the server! A proof of work was uploaded and certified. This certification proves there were no calculation errors during the probable prime test. Several Lucas-Lehmer tests are underway to definitively prove the number prime.
PicoCluster – A cheap computing cluster built on SBC
PicoCluster can be considered an optimal system to create a cheap cluster with SBC, dedicated to math research. I have always been an enthusiast of automatic computing. One of the first programs I wrote (in BASIC) on my Commodore 64 was the search for Armstrong numbers, those numbers whose sum
Jetson Nano e CUDA : Ricerca fattori di Mersenne
Il Jetson Nano è un SBC nato per risolvere problemi legati al Machine Learning (ML) ed alla AI, ma il suo cuore CUDA soddisferà appassionati di grafica e calcolo. Un numero si dice primo quando è divisibile per 1 e per se stesso. I numeri di Mersenne sono descritti come
Raspberry PI Math – Calcolare Numeri di Armstrong
Utilizzare il Raspberry PI per eseguire task math related non è in genere un sistema valido. A meno che non si parli di ottimizzazione. Lavorare con catene socievoli e numeri narcisisti è sempre stato divertente: si lavora su alcune caratteristiche del numero (posizione delle cifre, divisibilità, presenza di fattori) e
CUDA with Jetson Nano – Parallel Pollard Rho test
Math is hard. When your teacher does not like to teach it. According to Wikipedia, CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) model created by Nvidia. It allows software developers and software engineers to use a CUDA-enabled graphics processing unit (GPU) for
Interesting anecdotes about prime numbers search
I started this managing activity 23 years ago, and collected a number of anecdotes related to distributed computing. Why? The first question people ask about our searches: “Why are you doing it? What is the rationale behind the search of a new titanic prime or a factor if a gigantic