The longest record-holder known was M19 = 524,287, which was the largest known prime for 184 years. The primes up to and including are found without a computer, while the primes starting with 180× (M …

2 days ago · BLOWING ROCK, NC, October 21, 2024 -- The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2 136,279,841 -1, having 41,024,320 …

2 days ago · Here we keep the list of the 5000 largest known primes, updated hourly (hundreds of new primes are submitted every month). We are the world's primary source to the current prime number …

Nov 14, 2024 · Professor John Voight from the University of Sydney looks at the most recent discovery of a Mersenne prime number, the largest yet found, and ponders the beauty of the infinite, with …

The largest known prime number is 2 136,279,841 − 1, a number which has 41,024,320 digits when written in the decimal system. It was found on October 12, 2024, on a cloud-based virtual machine …

The current record for the largest known prime number, the Mersenne prime 2 136279841 1 2136279841 −1, was discovered by Luke Durant, a 36-year-old independent researcher and former …

Dec 17, 2025 · The largest known prime as of October 2024 is 2 136, 279, 841 1, which has 41,024,320 digits. [1]. It is well known that there are infinitely many prime numbers (as proven by Euclid), so the …

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.

Sep 1, 2022 · The largest known prime number is 2136,279,841 − 1, a number which has 41,024,320 digits when written in the decimal system. It was found on October 12, 2024, on a cloud-based virtual …

Oct 25, 2024 · The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, …