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New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer (sherwood.news)

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According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And this helps humanity and mathematicians by...nothing. It's absolutely nothing.

[-] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Finally! Someone who understands! If it's not something we can understand, it's not really math.

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

All knowledge is good knowledge

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