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Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer
beuvons@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I don’t know if this is a common feature of large primes, but the digits in the exponent (136,279,841) themselves represent a prime number.
Petter1@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
sus@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
that’s one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes…
mersenne primes happen to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)