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New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer (sherwood.news)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To save you a click: 2^136,279,841^-1

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Formatting is off.

2^136,279,841 - 1

2 to the power of something, then subtract one to make it an odd number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What Lemmy client are you using? Looks OK on the web and Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sync for Lemmy.

Here's the source of their comment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sync still uses Reddit's markdown rules, Lemmy is a little different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well this was 8 months ago.

https://lemmy.world/post/12509081

Still outstanding on Github

https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/477

I assume the numbers never made business sense for them to continue development.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I assume the numbers never made business sense for them to continue development.

I guess so.
I was sorta waiting for Sync to become more fully featured before committing to an ad-free purchase, but I guess I should start looking for other clients again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use Jerboa out of habit because it's the first one I downloaded that more or less worked that also had the coloured bars down the side of the comments so I could keep track of what level of the comment thread Im looking at.

Heard good things about Thunder though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Does it also have coloured usernames?

Back when I was still on Reddit I used Joey which, if a user commented more than once in a thread, their username would get the colour of the first "level" on subsequent replies. Any other username, including first comment, would be white/black (depending on night mode).

  • (red) | User1 > Comment
    • (orange) | User2 > reply
      • (yellow) | User3 > Another reply
        • (green) | (orange) User2 > another reply

I've missed that feature on all alternative Reddit, and now Lemmy, clients I've tried.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, never seen anything like that. Best we've got is the user avatars I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm also using sync

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I also use sync but the formatting and a bunch of other stuff is unfortunately pretty broken.

I don't think we will ever get a fix either ;(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Using Eternity and formatting was off for me. Second reply comment was good though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Using Boost and it's off for me as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I’m using Voyager and yours doesn’t work, but the person you responded to looks fine. Weird!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that's the telephone number of a flat in Islington where I once went to a party...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah...they called but I told them it wasn't you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hope you hit him in his two heads