The New Largest Prime Number Ever Discovered! (confirmed today)

Today it was officially announced that a new "largest known prime number" has been discovered (and confirmed prime), so I had to make this quick video about the number, the cool binary form of its type of prime called "Mersenne primes", and the future of prime-hunting.

Here's a link to the official press release from "G.I.M.P.S." with more info about the software and people involved in this discovery:

Here's a link to a livestream I did last week when it was quietly announced that a new "probable prime" of this type was discovered. This livestream discusses some more things about Mersenne primes (which this new prime is the 52nd known one of):

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[Domotro]

Had to pause everything and make this video when I read that it had been confirmed today!

Here's a link to the official press release from "G.I.M.P.S." with more info about the software and people involved in this discovery:

Here's a link to a livestream I did last week when it was quietly announced that a new "probable prime" of this type was discovered. This livestream discusses some more things about Mersenne primes (which this new prime is the 52nd known one of):

[bjorntorlarsson]

I found one of those free online calculators that finds all divisors of a number. I was impressed by how it listed them in real time as I was typing the digits (base 10). Until the 15th digit when it hesitated for a few seconds. And the 16th digit number it didn't want to calculate before Chrome said that the page is unresponsive. I don't think it is made for numbers with millions of digits. That's another sport.

[Ninja]

It has been so long since we found a new Mersenne prime and wow, the difference is size compared to the last one in just jawdropping

[bjorntorlarsson]

Only 52 Mersenne primes found out of 136, 279, 841 candidates. Although 4 primes are already among the 7 first candidates of 2^n-1. Hmm. How many straws does a haystack consist of?

[EvanEscher]

So what you're telling me, is that all mersenne primes are hyper elevens in binary

[skiller.X]

i was using that prime as my password, time to change it now, thanks!

[shutupimlearning]

normally I have no interest in number theory, but your enthusiasm is infectious!

[HackerMC]

That's over 17MB of ones. Bigger than a short-term Minecraft world

[TypeSirius]

Domo, ありがと。Prime beef updates. Yum yum.

[jorgechavesfilho]

Great! I've watched some good videos on this discovery, but Domotro's is by far the best.

[threeholepunchmike]

if you want to see the number, stop by standupmaths matt parker of numberphile fame. he put 100k numbers per frame for 6+ minutes lol

[TymexComputing]

Your channel is the best for normal user :)

[miroslavzderic]

father Pucci when someone chews gum in church:

[jesusthroughmary]

We really got a new Mersenne prime before GTA 6

[ophios]

two the power of some very large number.. aw man, if only one of the ones was a five

[TRex-fubt]

Mersennes have that funny property of being very large in magnitude but very small to describe

[RobertBlair]

What other bases can we use to find primes of form 1111...111?
In base 3, 111 = 13, and probably more

[jortor]

Waiting for u only your talk on this but even before u got greeted by that small creature

[jf]

So this number is roughly 14GB in size. Gonna make RSA pretty sercure though :D

[TypeSirius]

BTW we have new infinite recursive programming languages coming out that can make almost any calculation infinitely scaleable. This is very big. I bet we see a new prime in less than 10 months, give or take.