One year, 41 million digits: How he found the largest known prime number
Luke Durant was folding his laundry right into his suitcase ahead of a trip back home to Alabama when he decided to check his computer and see if he had made history.He figured that, like every other time over the past year of fixing computer scripts, he probably hadn’t. That night, Oct. 12, he was wrong....
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