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The following table lists the progression of the largest known prime number in ascending order. [3] Here M p = 2 p − 1 is the Mersenne number with exponent p, where p is a prime number. The longest record-holder known was M 19 = 524,287, which was the largest known prime for 144 years. No records are known prior to 1456.
The table below lists the largest currently known prime numbers and probable primes (PRPs) as tracked by the PrimePages and by Henri & Renaud Lifchitz's PRP Records. Numbers with more than 2,000,000 digits are shown.
Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number in nearly six years.
A prime number (or prime) is a ... A different computation found that there are 18,435,599,767,349,200,867,866 primes (roughly 2 ... Largest known prime number;
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Jon Pace, a flight operations finance manager, is credited with discovering the largest prime number currently known. It’s 23.2 million digits long.
The following is a list of all currently known Mersenne primes and perfect numbers, along with their corresponding exponents p. As of 2024, there are 52 known Mersenne primes (and therefore perfect numbers), the largest 18 of which have been discovered by the distributed computing project Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS. [2]
As of October 2024, the project has found a total of eighteen Mersenne primes, sixteen of which were the largest known prime number at their respective times of discovery. The largest known prime as of October 2024 is 2 136,279,841 − 1 (or M 136,279,841 for short) and was discovered on October 12, 2024, by Luke Durant.