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11 sats \ 4 replies \ @SwapMarket 23 Oct 2024 \ on: Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits discovered science

It required so many GPUs to take 2 to the power of 136,279,841 and deduct 1? Incredible.

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @SwapMarket 23 Oct 2024

I guess also to verify that it's a prime...

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40 sats \ 2 replies \ @IamSINGLE OP 23 Oct 2024

You should try to verify.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 23 Oct 2024

Verify it by hand if you dare

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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE OP 23 Oct 2024

I'm not mathematician so I won't even dare it with all the world's computers. If you're you can please go with it.

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