New Largest Prime Discovered!
A new world record breaking Prime Number has been discovered by American Prime Hunter Luke Durant in October 2024 after he invested around 2 million dollars of his own money in the quest to find a new Largest Prime.
It has been six years since the record was last broken and the newly discovered gigantic Prime is a whopping 41 million digits long. The new number is a special type of Prime called a Mersenne Prime and Luke Durant has now gone down in history as the discover of the 52nd Mersenne Prime.