2024-10-22

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Full interview with Luke Durant on his discovery of the 52nd Mersenne Prime (and the largest known prime)... the prime is 2^136,279,841 -1 which has a whopping 41,024,320 decimal digits. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓

Luke is an independent researcher (and former NVIDIA employee) who put together what was essentially a cloud-based super computer to find the number.

Main video: /youtube/video/Yp4ilFOtoeg

Woltman Full Interview: /youtube/video/9ML2q0q53io

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For people who are inquiring, Luke wears some mechanical support on his nose to help with his breathing.

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