Hacker News with Generative AI: Prime Numbers

The Periodic Table of Primes (2024) (ssrn.com)
Over millennia, nobody has been able to predict where prime numbers sprout or how they spread.
Mathematics, Number Theory, Prime Numbers
7 points by toss1 14 days ago | 1 comments
Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter? (wordpress.com)
If you ask a person on the street whether 1 is a prime number, they’ll probably pause, try to remember what they were taught, and say “no” (or “yes” or “I don’t remember”). Or maybe they’ll cross the street in a hurry. On the other hand, if you ask a mathematician, there’s a good chance they’ll say “That’s an excellent question” or “It’s kind of an interesting story…”
Mathematics, Number Theory, Prime Numbers
92 points by jamespropp 18 days ago | 151 comments
Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them (scientificamerican.com)
Math enthusiasts challenge one another to find special prime numbers, including those that are palindromes and Smarandache numbers
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Number Theory
185 points by georgecmu 111 days ago | 103 comments
Plotting Prime Numbers (2021) (jaketae.github.io)
Why is it that prime numbers, when plotted on polar coordinates, show patterns, such as spirals or lines?
Mathematics, Data Visualization, Prime Numbers
38 points by aragonite 145 days ago | 7 comments
Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers (quantamagazine.org)
A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers.
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Number Theory
199 points by nsoonhui 147 days ago | 88 comments
Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers (quantamagazine.org)
A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers.
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Number Theory
9 points by pseudolus 148 days ago | 0 comments
Calculating the largest known prime in Ruby (jpcamara.com)
Looking to impress your Ruby friends by calculating the largest known prime, 2 ** 136_279_841-1?
Programming, Ruby, Mathematics, Prime Numbers
23 points by thunderbong 160 days ago | 10 comments
One year, 41M digits: How Luke Durant found the largest known prime number (washingtonpost.com)
It’s been nearly six years since math devotees discovered the last largest known prime number, but the bar has officially been raised by over 16 million digits.
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Records
60 points by ortusdux 184 days ago | 35 comments
Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one? (saytheprime.com)
We're attempting to get a collection of humans to say every digit of the newly-discovered (and currently largest-known prime number) Mersenne prime M136279841, and hope to achieve this before another larger prime is discovered.
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Challenges, Community Projects
314 points by robinhouston 187 days ago | 146 comments
Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number (ycombinator.com)
Hi, I'm Mihai Preda the author of GpuOwl/PRPLL [1], an OpenCL software used by Luke Durant for his recent discovery of the largest prime number know, the 52nd Mersenne prime 2^136279841 - 1 [2].
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Software, OpenCL
72 points by mpreda 195 days ago | 43 comments
A Man Who Found the Biggest Prime [video] (youtube.com)
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Number Theory, Videos
4 points by selectnull 199 days ago | 0 comments
New largest prime number found See all 41,024,320 digits [video] (youtube.com)
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Number Theory, Science, Video
10 points by Alifatisk 200 days ago | 7 comments
GIMPS Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 2^136279841 – 1 (mersenne.org)
BLOWING ROCK, NC, October 21, 2024 -- The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2136,279,841-1, having 41,024,320 decimal digits. Luke Durant, from San Jose, California, found the prime on October 12th.
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Science, Computer Science
30 points by fuglede_ 200 days ago | 11 comments
New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) (mersenne.org)
October 13, 2024 — Yesterday, a participating GIMPS computer reported a successful Fermat probable prime test to the server! A proof of work was uploaded and certified. This certification proves there were no calculation errors during the probable prime test. Several Lucas-Lehmer tests are underway to definitively prove the number prime. These tests will be run using several different programs and on different hardware. Soon after the result is officially confirmed an announcement will be made with all the details.
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Computer Science
368 points by sdsykes 205 days ago | 120 comments
Big advance on simple-sounding math problem was a century in the making (quantamagazine.org)
A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture.
Mathematics, Number Theory, Prime Numbers, Conjectures
129 points by isaacfrond 206 days ago | 40 comments
Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers (science.org)
Mathematics, Number Theory, Prime Numbers
400 points by igitur 281 days ago | 147 comments
'Sensational' Proof Delivers New Insights into Prime Numbers (quantamagazine.org)
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Research, Science
67 points by pseudolus 296 days ago | 6 comments
How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be? (glitchcomet.com)
Cryptography, Prime Numbers, Computer Science, Mathematics
271 points by techedlaksh 371 days ago | 86 comments
Finding the First 10-digit Prime in Digits of e (2017) (hanshq.net)
Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Computational Mathematics
41 points by rvnx 382 days ago | 5 comments