Comment on Amateur Mathematician Discovers the Largest Known Prime NumberComments−ColinWright1yIt's a bit odd, the way this is presented as a discovery by an amateur mathematician. It's a distributed calculation, and his machine was the one that found it. It's largely chance, although it does appear that he has souped up his hardware.Just ... very odd.Related:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904237 : GIMPS Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 2^136279841 – 1 (mersenne.org)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858024 : New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) (mersenne.org)
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It's a bit odd, the way this is presented as a discovery by an amateur mathematician. It's a distributed calculation, and his machine was the one that found it. It's largely chance, although it does appear that he has souped up his hardware.
Just ... very odd.
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904237 : GIMPS Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 2^136279841 – 1 (mersenne.org)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858024 : New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) (mersenne.org)