October 21, 2024 — The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered a new Mersenne prime number, 2136,279,841-1. At 41,024,320 digits, it eclipses by more than 16 million digits the previous largest known prime number found by GIMPS nearly 6 years ago.
Source: https://www.mersenne.org/
The previous largest prime number was 2^82,589,933-1. So there is a ginormous gap between the previous prime and this. I think there must be some other prime number hiding in the gap, waiting to be discovered.
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