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
Formatting is off.
2^136,279,841 - 1
2 to the power of something, then subtract one to make it an odd number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime
What Lemmy client are you using? Looks OK on the web and Jerboa.
Sync for Lemmy.
Here’s the source of their comment.
I’m also using sync