TIL a former Nvidia employee spent $2 million dollars of his own money to find the largest current prime number which is 41,024,320 digits long.
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Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number | Popular Science
M136279841 is over 41 million digits.Andrew Paul (Popular Science)