New largest prime number found! See all 41,024,320 digits.

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
  • 2^136,279,841 - 1 has 41,024,320 digits and is prime! Read all about the new largest prime number ever found: www.mersenne.o...
    Huge thanks to Luke Durant, George Woltman and everyone at the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.
    Get involve in the search for large primes! www.mersenne.org/
    This is the breakdown of the maths methods used by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: www.mersenne.o...
    Here are the details of the test completed on M52 (the 52nd Mersenne prime). www.mersenne.o...
    The old computer photo was of Alice Betsy and Donald Gillies in front of the ILLIAC I computer which found three record-breaking primes in 1963. en.wikipedia.o...
    In 2016 I printed the then-biggest prime: • New World's Biggest Pr...
    And I talked about the Lucas-Lehmer test to prove it is prime: • New World's Biggest Pr...
    This is my Pi By Hand video which Daniel B also features in. • The biggest hand calcu...
    Yes, pieces of Skylab (spacecraft, not dog) are in Esperance, Western Australia. www.esperance....
    Keep an eye on A Problem Squared to see why I was recording somewhere between Perth and Esperance. podcasters.spo...
    Huge thanks to my Patreon supporters. I bought Lucie and Steve pizza at Lucky Bay Brewing. Support me and I'll buy more beer for my family. Think of my family! / standupmaths
    CORRECTIONS
    None yet, let me know if you spot anything!
    Filming by Lucie Green
    Timing and moral support by Steve Parker
    Editing by Alex Genn-Bash
    Written and performed by Matt Parker
    Produced by Nicole Jacobus
    Music by Howard Carter
    Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
    MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
    Website: standupmaths.com/
    What's that? You want the first 1,000 and the last 1,000 digits? Ok then.
    88169432750383326555393910037811735897120735450906604106715637641242263069475684144172599034772328310883750973995977687416411861067989576855334864723995205060798449228721358061244076525539478775000439534750170154974576283410295848102383525535219220018019849855213682289354421233731941048436851937365086094936028711317471018571432064708199837306148628782571243013388625206173910274307646954181724489815008305937259728175843471969304505016010624205115241396117063758595818539722355781328791512832801883905761320993838905658296650552409138343183552227657748911779669750031093294093386744231619348351202551513084271500976680524602998030484860484032028378812274042189370786146986225083833180256124082952929091707884436572049502580821237700560065034341723563299580864533178881894890817148581725172201276201796923763182586106207328500056407876479535665919678190450758160463293878836864796419780569458825516434971724519669668448902003364676649856436358572985441582849317833496323027747555507286203346254829408
    ...
    379917800074819834879174805544034190986430521374206285055121736821172730439885890696160696738793999689882023176568153106746504313606250642598076140813828315717419942537662944964306217371556136368352752973759780217936883138877627248808662700396663095279153973893902666086461616485583762677066904293427343455290492166513799179605246624655355275099116671949790439962847921294301305427953128314765939127728218346554896221997074614829104667188434513710908760262441958100654871778292588483687836525477866623456759406568413274257016253600215416101593545336364864016927856588259167176083248724260943143895526709760397223040669769164386169801147177769071911797791558053414248681988242398764524051454517822994048288203377834666172715887058758075640360627674534014864896061019562846339719171054887748917152381772467028804688715061941073872049488371255679127735992935698305082529421587975486852806517931459412567957568284228288124096109707961148305849349766085764170715060409404509622104665555076706219486871551

КОМЕНТАРІ • 2,1 тис.

  • @arthaiser
    @arthaiser 3 місяці тому +6283

    i was using that prime as my password, time to change it now, thanks luke

    • @GerinoMorn
      @GerinoMorn 3 місяці тому +83

      meh, we just take 8 first characters anyway... xD

    • @Ignotius_Grindelwald
      @Ignotius_Grindelwald 3 місяці тому +35

      too late, i already entered it🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @AndreVanKammen
      @AndreVanKammen 3 місяці тому

      I was using it for my RSA-136279841 implementation (when an RSA bit number is so high it gives away the key) i gues that's why you shouldn't use mersenne primes for RSA they are way to easy to guess.

    • @spingbay7039
      @spingbay7039 3 місяці тому +60

      I was using it as one of the keys in RCA-encyption with my mum. I'll have to find a new one :(

    • @AntonioBarba_TheKaneB
      @AntonioBarba_TheKaneB 3 місяці тому +42

      ah, only digits! no letters or symbols? such amateur!

  • @alalcoolj216
    @alalcoolj216 3 місяці тому +5166

    In base "2^136,279,841 - 1", this number would be written out as "10".

    • @ujocdod
      @ujocdod 3 місяці тому +329

      Is X in base X always 10?

    • @Rulerofwax24
      @Rulerofwax24 3 місяці тому +257

      @@ujocdod 2 in base 2 is 10, 10 in base 10 is 10

    • @ValidatingUsername
      @ValidatingUsername 3 місяці тому +205

      @@ujocdodYes

    • @ujocdod
      @ujocdod 3 місяці тому +18

      ​​@ValidatingUsername Ok, thought so :)

    • @citratune
      @citratune 3 місяці тому +91

      imagine memorizing that many symbols

  • @Jamineyam
    @Jamineyam 3 місяці тому +786

    This prime was discovered the day after my number theory lecturer told us the previous largest known prime and had to correct himself with this new prime in the next lecture lol

    • @Hitarth_Rana
      @Hitarth_Rana 3 місяці тому +70

      That's actually great! I mean the fact that your lecturer is that updated with their knowledge!

    • @Xanthe_Cat
      @Xanthe_Cat 3 місяці тому +60

      Admittedly we’ve only discovered 52 Mersenne primes in the entirety of human history so it’s not like new ones are found every other week.

    • @robertunderwood1011
      @robertunderwood1011 3 місяці тому +23

      @@Xanthe_Cat
      You were right just a few days ago I was thinking
      Well, it’s been several years now … it’s about time they discovered a new Mersinne prime.

    • @PopeLando
      @PopeLando 3 місяці тому

      @@Jamineyam I mean after almost 6 years he was onto a good bet!

    • @fivenightsofben6096
      @fivenightsofben6096 3 місяці тому +1

      That's so exciting!!

  • @MartinMllerSkarbiniksPedersen
    @MartinMllerSkarbiniksPedersen 3 місяці тому +456

    If you were to write the latest Mersenne prime in hexadecimal, it would be a 1 followed by 34,069,960 F’s.

    • @NonFatMead
      @NonFatMead 3 місяці тому +33

      That's a lot of respects paid...

    • @gcewing
      @gcewing 3 місяці тому +24

      We should nickname it the "big effing prime number".

    • @PunmasterSTP
      @PunmasterSTP 3 місяці тому +5

      That's an F'ing huge number.

    • @NonFatMead
      @NonFatMead 3 місяці тому +13

      @@gcewingMersenne Primes are all big F’ing numbers. This one should be known as the Biggest F’ing Prime Number

    • @PhoenixClank
      @PhoenixClank 3 місяці тому +8

      @@NonFatMead … for now.

  • @tylerlarsen1842
    @tylerlarsen1842 3 місяці тому +46

    From hand to institutes with supercomputers to hobbyists with home computers to a hobbyist with a supercomputer

  • @jamgall1010
    @jamgall1010 3 місяці тому +3835

    Run time of 10:13, 613 seconds. Both 1013 and 613 are prime.
    Edit: Can we call this 'prime time'?

    • @honorarymancunian7433
      @honorarymancunian7433 3 місяці тому +108

      That's honestly great

    • @porof5ercan
      @porof5ercan 3 місяці тому +62

      Dating primes? Meeting at the right time maybe?

    • @stevenvanhulle7242
      @stevenvanhulle7242 3 місяці тому +80

      @@honorarymancunian7433 Not so surprising, though. People tend to underestimate how many primes there are. Between 1 and 100 one in four numbers is prime. Between 1 and 1000 one in six is prime.
      For instance, near 613, the numbers 607 and 617 are also prime.

    • @mjs28s
      @mjs28s 3 місяці тому +17

      @@porof5ercan
      One must meet in the prime of their life.

    • @FocusLRHAP
      @FocusLRHAP 3 місяці тому +13

      @@stevenvanhulle7242 This one is weird: 127 and 113 are the first prime numbers with a difference of 14, from each other. I mean there are no other primes between them.

  • @LanceThackeray
    @LanceThackeray 3 місяці тому +2059

    Casually doxing hundreds of thousands of phone numbers.

    • @abigailcooling6604
      @abigailcooling6604 3 місяці тому +297

      And passwords, bank PINs, vault keys, user IDs and account numbers. Matt should be more careful with what he puts online.

    • @michaelbauers8800
      @michaelbauers8800 3 місяці тому +33

      Lol that was funny, thanks for the laugh. Maybe even entire words that were used by shakespear.

    • @instazx2
      @instazx2 3 місяці тому +51

      bee movie script is probably in there somewhere

    • @stapleman007
      @stapleman007 3 місяці тому +38

      The list of who wasn't doxed is probably shorter.

    • @ericpaul4575
      @ericpaul4575 3 місяці тому

      @@abigailcooling6604 and SSNs

  • @sketchups4672
    @sketchups4672 3 місяці тому +533

    I did it. I watched it all the way through! Whenever I blinked I went back several seconds and kept going. I expect several awards going forward

    • @kierangrasby5728
      @kierangrasby5728 3 місяці тому +37

      I went back to when the numbers started scrolling, then started watching again but alternating which eye was closed, with a full open between each individual eye closing.

    • @sketchups4672
      @sketchups4672 3 місяці тому

      @@kierangrasby5728 efficient. Clearly you have outdone me!

    • @andor_yoko
      @andor_yoko 3 місяці тому

      ​@@kierangrasby5728speedrunner strats. Now get a 120Hz screen and watch it at 2x speed

    • @SiberCatLP
      @SiberCatLP 3 місяці тому +5

      How about the "69 likes" award?

    • @TropicalCoder
      @TropicalCoder 3 місяці тому +5

      I set the playback speed down to the lowest it would go - 0.25, so I would miss a digit. Took quite a while that way, and the guy's voice was very deep.

  • @EarendilStar
    @EarendilStar 3 місяці тому +5

    Soooo glad the last few digits didn’t end in “2”.

  • @lindhe
    @lindhe 3 місяці тому +39

    2:30 I don't think it's such a big deal to have seen every single digit of the biggest known prime number, there's only ten of them.

    • @colinkirkpatrick5618
      @colinkirkpatrick5618 3 місяці тому +5

      Reading a library isn’t impressive either, we learned everything on the wall in primary school

  • @alexander0the0gray
    @alexander0the0gray 3 місяці тому +740

    Luke Durant now suddenly has a meeting scheduled tomorrow to explain the electricity usage for the last 12 months in the data centers he manages 😂

    • @zrodger2296
      @zrodger2296 3 місяці тому +50

      Yeah, my question: who paid for all the computing time?

    • @DukeBG
      @DukeBG 3 місяці тому +75

      Luke Durant is (was?) the principal engineer of CUDA Software, NVIDIA.

    • @ytmadpoo
      @ytmadpoo 3 місяці тому +209

      Luke used publicly available cloud GPU time, spot pricing. Pretty impressive really. Sometimes the spot prices are very affordable and he took great advantage of that. Along with scripting to coordinate work distribution, starting new instances when the prices were "just right", and so on. GIMPS is very happy to have his contributions. His efforts progressed the search for the next prime YEARS ahead of where we would have been otherwise.

    • @gavin5410
      @gavin5410 3 місяці тому +16

      ​@@ytmadpooThat's incredible, thank you for sharing.

    • @BetaDude40
      @BetaDude40 3 місяці тому +28

      I'm glad people are thinking more about the cost of computation. Green Computing definitely needs to be a topic covered more frequently in computer education

  • @alexbanks9510
    @alexbanks9510 3 місяці тому +262

    Fully appreciating how precise the timing of the start/stop was

    • @rudivonstaden
      @rudivonstaden 3 місяці тому +3

      We already knew that Matt is good at waffling, but to be able to waffle for exactly 6:50 and hit all the key points in that time is next level.

  • @winklethrall2636
    @winklethrall2636 3 місяці тому +705

    Rats, I blinked and missed some of the digits.

    • @Cossieuk
      @Cossieuk 3 місяці тому +50

      You just need to watch it a few times and hope you blinks happen at different times

    • @lazykbys
      @lazykbys 3 місяці тому +23

      I'm pretty sure I saw the silhouette of a weeping angel in those digits.

    • @Schikane07
      @Schikane07 3 місяці тому +10

      You can just pause the video when you need to blink 😂

    • @amirkal4487
      @amirkal4487 3 місяці тому +12

      i read this comment and missed some digits

    • @maynardtrendle820
      @maynardtrendle820 3 місяці тому +7

      ​@@lazykbysEvery time a Mersenne prime is found, an Angel is made to clean out the Elysian Stables. There are many hyperhorses, and very much hyperhorse poop. This is the reason for their tears...😢

  • @arondesilva4008
    @arondesilva4008 3 місяці тому +62

    0:11 yeah I thought it was, glad to know someone was on the same page as me

    • @amgwilly565
      @amgwilly565 3 місяці тому +4

      i laughed way too hard at this

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 місяці тому

      i mean, if someone showed me that and asked me if it was prime, i'd probably say "sure, why not"

  • @malignusvonbottershnike563
    @malignusvonbottershnike563 3 місяці тому +38

    I'm taking a number theory course at uni this year, and on Saturday 12th our professor brought up the largest known Mersenne prime during discussion in a lecture, only to rock up on Tuesday 15th and tell us they'd found this new one! So that's quite fun

    • @stevevernon1978
      @stevevernon1978 3 місяці тому

      are you at the same uni as @bengolden870 ? he said almost exactly the same thing!

  • @amits4744
    @amits4744 3 місяці тому +348

    The worst thing is that there are infinitely many primes bigger than this number

    • @jeremykraenzlein5975
      @jeremykraenzlein5975 3 місяці тому +21

      I was thinking of asking a snarky question of "Now is this the last one?".
      Obviously it isn't. As you noted, there will always be infinitely more prime numbers left for us to discover.

    • @TymexComputing
      @TymexComputing 3 місяці тому +47

      Its more important that it is a Mersenne prime, so it leads to a Perfect number , and there is no proof that there are infinitely many perfect numbers ;)

    • @amits4744
      @amits4744 3 місяці тому +9

      @@TymexComputing if there are infinitely many Mersenne primes, then there are infinitely many perfect numbers too

    • @crasystar-c8x
      @crasystar-c8x 3 місяці тому

      ​@@amits4744 Dont think we know if there are infinite many Mersenne primes though... Believe mathmaticians think there is, but there is no proof.

    • @oliviapg
      @oliviapg 3 місяці тому

      @@amits4744 But there is no proof of there being infinitely many Mersenne primes. The Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture posits that there are, but it's not proven.

  • @bigpopakap
    @bigpopakap 3 місяці тому +415

    I kept thinking: he must have a timer behind the camera, right? And yay, it was revealed! It's still so impressive how you can talk in one take, manage the timing, and envision how the visuals will be displayed, quickly enough to do it on the beach on vacation. Maths UA-cam legend 🙇‍♂️

    • @fantasia55
      @fantasia55 3 місяці тому +8

      He could manipulate the speed slightly. Easy Peasy

    • @strengthman600
      @strengthman600 3 місяці тому +25

      ⁠@@fantasia55assuming he was telling the truth about 1 bunch of digits per frame, it’s not the type of thing that can be sped up without losing information

    • @bigpopakap
      @bigpopakap 3 місяці тому +24

      @@strengthman600 someone should go in frame by frame to verify if there are, in fact 10,000 digits in each frame and if they are, in fact, the correct digits.
      I would volunteer, but I am scheduled to cease existing sometime in the next 1000 years, so I'm not sure I'll have the time, sadly.

    • @artemis.nnnnnbbbbb
      @artemis.nnnnnbbbbb 3 місяці тому +10

      ​@@fantasia55a lot easier to pre-calculate the time and adjust the script accordingly (if scripted, which it probably is)

    • @artemis.nnnnnbbbbb
      @artemis.nnnnnbbbbb 3 місяці тому +3

      ​@@strengthman600probably adjusting his own speed slightly (most often by shortening gaps or more rarely lengthening them)

  • @KhanStopMe
    @KhanStopMe 3 місяці тому +2561

    Cycling through the digits on screen is SO bad for the compression/bitrate on your face lol

    • @standupmaths
      @standupmaths  3 місяці тому +913

      My face!

    • @youdontknowme5969
      @youdontknowme5969 3 місяці тому +38

      Beard.

    • @JotaSE30
      @JotaSE30 3 місяці тому +68

      Looks fine in 4k :)

    • @Anklejbiter
      @Anklejbiter 3 місяці тому +48

      luckily switching to 4k fixes that problem - even if you don't have a 4k screen lol

    • @NicoBaumgarten
      @NicoBaumgarten 3 місяці тому +34

      I wonder if the compression will "steal" digits or frames or change/alter digits and introduce artifacts, in effect altering the theoretical number of digits displayed.

  • @Osmium78
    @Osmium78 3 місяці тому +3

    Thanks for taking time during your vacation to inform us!

  • @maximehaldane
    @maximehaldane 3 місяці тому +1

    Loving this prime content. Always of a high quality. Have a nice holiday, I was very excited to bump into Matt by chance at the TMBG concert and have since put the picture I took with him on my ClassPad such that it will comfort me during my upcoming Yr 12 Exams. Hope he enjoy his time back over here in the land of Aus

  • @Richard0915
    @Richard0915 3 місяці тому +304

    Luke really put finding the next prime number over mining bitcoin with all those GPUs, i respect that

    • @owen_brady
      @owen_brady 3 місяці тому +24

      mining bitcoin, or placing your name worldwide forever in the history books.... I'd do the same if I was smart enough.

    • @quillaja
      @quillaja 3 місяці тому +12

      The cost of the GPU time probably is more than the bitcoin he'd be able to mine.

    • @markshiman5690
      @markshiman5690 3 місяці тому

      People who are already rich do not need to mine btc

    • @DeJay7
      @DeJay7 3 місяці тому +1

      You respect what? It is objectively and undeniably the better choice.

    • @amigalemming
      @amigalemming 3 місяці тому +1

      Why not establish a blockchain where the challenges to solve are not hash functions, but prime numbers?

  • @aenetanthony
    @aenetanthony 3 місяці тому +197

    1:11 “UA-cam Compression Hates This One Trick!”

    • @jh-ec7si
      @jh-ec7si 3 місяці тому +5

      Increase your resolution if it happens to bother you. UA-cam automatically lowers resolution (on mobile at least) to compensate for high bitrate images which makes it worse but you can up the resolution and it's usually much better. Learnt that from watching the slomo bros channel.

  • @noreply5576
    @noreply5576 3 місяці тому +177

    If you pause a video in UA-cam on desktop, you can then use the '.' and ',' keys (period and comma) to advance one frame forwards or backwards in the video. That way you won't miss any of the digits!

    • @JohannaMueller57
      @JohannaMueller57 3 місяці тому +2

      oh damn, didn't know this works on youtube too. thanks

    • @Ztingjammer
      @Ztingjammer 3 місяці тому +1

      Didn't know that, so thank you! Will need to make use of that for this video tomorrow! 😎

    • @hinz1
      @hinz1 3 місяці тому +2

      I rather watch it in binary or hex ;-)

    • @bertblankenstein3738
      @bertblankenstein3738 3 місяці тому

      I'll bring an extra keyboard.

    • @Bluhbear
      @Bluhbear 3 місяці тому +1

      Can't wait to spend the next few months reading every single digit.

  • @alexbradmckay
    @alexbradmckay 3 місяці тому +1

    Beautiful!! Thanks for taking time away from your vacation to inform us of this important discovery!

  • @stevenreynolds3793
    @stevenreynolds3793 3 місяці тому

    Hope you enjoyed your vacation. Listened to this video on while in Dominican Republic. Always enjoy your math videos... please keep them coming.

  • @quantum1861
    @quantum1861 3 місяці тому +110

    Hi Matt! I’m doing my undergraduate senior thesis on Mersenne numbers and related topics, mainly because I’ve been a fan of math UA-cam for many years so obviously this is huge news to me. I’ll have to go and update my presentation I’m giving in about an hour!

    • @DKdrop
      @DKdrop 3 місяці тому +8

      It’s been an hour, so I assume you’re either giving it or just finished. How’d the presentation go?

    • @hubblebubble1550
      @hubblebubble1550 3 місяці тому +4

      how'd it go?

    • @bananogamer6972
      @bananogamer6972 3 місяці тому +3

      We are all curious

    • @grantbaugh2773
      @grantbaugh2773 3 місяці тому +2

      Also wanting to hear the update, I can only imagine the stress of updating with such big news so last minute.

    • @quantum1861
      @quantum1861 3 місяці тому +45

      Would love to say there was much fanfare but I guess not everyone is as excited by prime numbers as we are lol. Advisor agreed that it’s always cool to see new developments in your field of research.

  • @voodootrois
    @voodootrois 3 місяці тому +119

    If this number was read aloud at 4 digits per second, it would take about 17 weeks.

    • @hens0w
      @hens0w 3 місяці тому +3

      There's a corresponding perfect number right, any idea how long that would take? (wikipeda says it has 82,048,640 digits)

    • @randomcoder5
      @randomcoder5 3 місяці тому +5

      @@hens0w It would take exactly twice as long so 34 weeks

    • @randomcoder5
      @randomcoder5 3 місяці тому

      @@deathschi_ ????? It’s an 82 million digit number, so it’s twice as long, therefore it will take twice as long to read. How long it takes to read depends on how long the number is, not the value of the number itself.

    • @real_momoxi
      @real_momoxi 3 місяці тому

      ​no its not@@randomcoder5

    • @deathschi_
      @deathschi_ 3 місяці тому

      @@randomcoder5 good point

  • @samreid6010
    @samreid6010 3 місяці тому +1153

    Actually I’m pretty sure that’s divisible by 17

    • @davidli719
      @davidli719 3 місяці тому +411

      You can disprove your own statement with the information taught in this video!
      Fermat's little theorem states that a^(p-1)≡1 (mod p), which means that 2^16≡1 (mod 17).
      It follows that 2^136,279,841=2 * 2^(16*8,517,490)=2 * (2^16)^8,517,490≡2 * 1^8,517,490≡2 (mod 17)
      So our prime, 2^136,279,841-1≡2-1≡1 (mod 17).
      The remainder is nonzero, so the number is not divisible by 17.
      And this is why we love Fermat's little theorem.

    • @davidli719
      @davidli719 3 місяці тому +25

      Ok this is nicer than my proof
      but here's a question: is 2 a primitive root for infinitely many primes?

    • @mikeallison5549
      @mikeallison5549 3 місяці тому

      @@thisnamewastakentoo_ 💯 but not e…… obviously

    • @samreid6010
      @samreid6010 3 місяці тому +34

      @@davidli719 I know, I was making a joke

    • @Elesario
      @Elesario 3 місяці тому +148

      @@samreid6010 Be aware that all jokes on this channel have to be mathematically accurate, or within a Parker approximation of accurate.

  • @gekfurian
    @gekfurian 3 місяці тому +2

    The compression algorithm must love this video

  • @jurzal4890
    @jurzal4890 3 місяці тому +1

    Happy for Luke! The sheer, raw compute power that Luke brought on the table for the project is hard to describe, but beautiful to see while it happened during the last year.
    Congratulations, well deserved!

  • @Jack93885
    @Jack93885 3 місяці тому +62

    I like the idea of using this number in this way to make static noise.

    • @scottgriz
      @scottgriz 3 місяці тому +1

      Except it isn't random noise. It's predictable.

    • @Jack93885
      @Jack93885 3 місяці тому +23

      @@scottgriz It needn't be random - its just visual noise. I like it specifically because it's not random, because it is specific and particular.

  • @williamdixon4936
    @williamdixon4936 3 місяці тому +25

    I love how it visibly affects the video quality when you start streaming the digits due to the video compression being negatively impacted by the randomness that is all those digits rapidly changing.

  • @alexandreflores6678
    @alexandreflores6678 3 місяці тому +123

    Wake up babe, new prime number just dropped!

    • @SoI-
      @SoI- 3 місяці тому

      69th like

    • @DoxxTheMathGeek
      @DoxxTheMathGeek 3 місяці тому

      That is how I would wake up any potential partner. X3

  • @rwjoyner
    @rwjoyner 3 місяці тому +2

    Hurrah, Mr. Parker -- thanks for this! A genuine reason to celebrate!

  • @NoUploadsOnThisChannel
    @NoUploadsOnThisChannel 3 місяці тому +2

    Yoooo Matt I ordered your books and I love them. Thank you!!!

  • @jontisaurusrex9851
    @jontisaurusrex9851 3 місяці тому +208

    THATS PRETTY BIG

    • @slipperynickels
      @slipperynickels 3 місяці тому +1

      THAT'S A LOTTA NUTS

    • @CKyIe
      @CKyIe 3 місяці тому +5

      for you.

    • @ad-mc
      @ad-mc 3 місяці тому +5

      I tried putting it into my calculator to try dividing it by 3, but it was too big.

    • @maynardtrendle820
      @maynardtrendle820 3 місяці тому +1

      It's average.

    • @WaffleAbuser
      @WaffleAbuser 3 місяці тому +1

      @@CKyIeWas creating a heuristic for finding prime numbers part of your plan?

  • @Otmjv
    @Otmjv 3 місяці тому +25

    Honestly that is the perfect location to talk about this in

  • @GreatOutdoors1
    @GreatOutdoors1 3 місяці тому +32

    A few times a year I check in to see if a new prime was found at GIMPS. A few times in the past I did my own searches for much smaller unknown primes and found 3 different ones that were temporarily on the top 5000 primes list.

  • @tag180rotax
    @tag180rotax 3 місяці тому +2

    The YT compression algo went nutty when you started showing the numbers

  • @ericeaton3551
    @ericeaton3551 3 місяці тому +5

    Thanks Lucy and Steve!

  • @trentgraham465
    @trentgraham465 3 місяці тому +65

    UA-cam's compression is STRUGGLING with the number display!

  • @catcoder7812
    @catcoder7812 3 місяці тому +41

    First human to see all of the digits!
    (Probably- randomly happened to go to UA-cam the moment the video dropped and have been pausing each time I need to blink)

    • @jakistam1000
      @jakistam1000 3 місяці тому

      Now, do you remember them? :D

  • @Saultyevil
    @Saultyevil 3 місяці тому +36

    The compression algorithm really struggles when the number starts scrolling by

  • @VicJang
    @VicJang 3 місяці тому +1

    Great video. Thanks for your coverage during a vacation.

  • @kallekivimaki7825
    @kallekivimaki7825 3 місяці тому +1

    The bitrate makes this look cool when the number is scrolling.

  • @chrisoneal2718
    @chrisoneal2718 3 місяці тому +16

    Congrats! This is huge news! We now also have a new perfect number as a result of this!

  • @WindowsXP_YT
    @WindowsXP_YT 3 місяці тому +43

    Edit: First ever Mersenne prime exponent with 9 digits
    Current goals for PrimeGrid-related programs: Find the first ever Wall-Sun-Sun prime, third Wieferich prime, third Wolstenholme prime, fourth Wilson prime, and the sixth Fermat prime
    Other current goals: Find the first ever composite Fortunate number
    Current goal for 196: Be the first ever Lychrel number in base 10

    • @GavrielFleischer
      @GavrielFleischer 3 місяці тому +1

      I'd be happy if someone found the 1st Fleischer prime!

    • @insouciantFox
      @insouciantFox 3 місяці тому +1

      Is there anyone searching for an even perfect number?

    • @robertpearce8394
      @robertpearce8394 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@insouciantFox 6,28,496,8128 ... I think you mean odd. The consensus is that there are none, but this had not been proved. This annoys as Pure Mathemations like things to be pure.

    • @WindowsXP_YT
      @WindowsXP_YT 3 місяці тому +1

      @@robertpearce8394 I don't think there will be any odd perfect numbers. The first to prove that there is at least one of quasiperfect, odd perfect, or odd weird number will win a million dollars, which is a prize. To access to them, you must be a mathematician

    • @robertunderwood1011
      @robertunderwood1011 3 місяці тому

      @@insouciantFox
      I think not . but if you find an odd one do let us know

  • @neyoshu
    @neyoshu 3 місяці тому +52

    Imagine you and your husband - after much hard work for the last few months - take a flight down to Australia for a few weeks with some close family/friends to have a small break away from work and life in general. You have a wonderful time exploring the local area, the beaches are beautiful, and you greatly enjoy going around this new area with your loved ones.
    Then - randomly one day - while sitting around doing nothing of note back at your hotel room, you see your husband check his phone; his eyes light up as he starts speed-reading a news article. He silently and immediately gets up, sits down at his laptop, and rapidly searches for information on various mathematics-related news sites, before opening a Word document and frantically typing away at what you can only assume is a... script? But you're on holiday, away from all your responsibilities of work.
    "Honey, are you okay? What's going on?"
    He stops typing and slowly cranks his head around, only stopping once his eyes are perfectly aimed at yours. His expressionless face staring deep into your soul, his jaw loosens, and he says:
    "They found it."
    (This is my personal headcanon for the origins of this video, I'm totally sure it's 100% accurate description of how it went down lmao)

    • @TymexComputing
      @TymexComputing 3 місяці тому +2

      Where did you leave children for all that time?

    • @Chris-hf2sl
      @Chris-hf2sl 3 місяці тому +1

      How to get divorced in one easy lesson.

    • @cab63868386
      @cab63868386 3 місяці тому +2

      I think they’re camping on the beach down there not in a hotel room⛺️🏖️

  • @ethancollinsworth3927
    @ethancollinsworth3927 3 місяці тому +3

    I just bought the 39th mersenne prime book can’t wait for the 40th

  • @TheQxY
    @TheQxY 3 місяці тому +4

    This must be the most energy spent on finding a single number ever.

  • @jnsng
    @jnsng 3 місяці тому +128

    we got a new largest prime before gta 6

  • @jackdog06
    @jackdog06 3 місяці тому +14

    Tip: put the playback speed at 0.25 so you have 4 times as long to read each set of 4000 digits. Hope this helps!

  • @joshyoung1440
    @joshyoung1440 3 місяці тому +1

    This video is an interesting lesson on the properties of visual snow, randomness, and UA-cam compression algorithms.

  • @grantfraser5430
    @grantfraser5430 3 місяці тому

    Thanks Matt for taking time out from your vacation for that report. A new largest known prime number is always a noteworthy event.

  • @ZealanTanner
    @ZealanTanner 3 місяці тому +5

    I sometimes have a recurring nightmare where there’s something so uncontrollably and overwhelmingly big and it’s too much to handle, this video gives the same vibes. Even a single frame in this video is more than I can imagine. Like my heart rate is up just from watching this

    • @railroadisolationist5452
      @railroadisolationist5452 3 місяці тому +1

      Geometric nightmares

    • @ZealanTanner
      @ZealanTanner 3 місяці тому

      @@railroadisolationist5452 yeah I’ve heard them being called that although I’d describe it more as a mountain or planet rather than a shape

  • @hectorurdiales4570
    @hectorurdiales4570 3 місяці тому +90

    8:05 I was kinda hoping the last digit was a 2

    • @eboone
      @eboone 3 місяці тому +17

      yeah. maybe next time

    • @danielyuan9862
      @danielyuan9862 3 місяці тому +26

      Parker prime

    • @diobrando2820
      @diobrando2820 3 місяці тому +6

      2 raised to the power of any positive, whole number is an even number and all even numbers end in an even digit (0, 2, 4, 6, or 8). Subtracting 1 from an even number will always give a number that ends in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9 (an odd number). So, it would have been impossible for this number to end in two.
      Also, we know that because the number is prime, it cannot end with the digit 2, because prime numbers can not be even (except the for the number 2 itself). If a number is even, it is divisible by 2 and therefore not prime.

    • @shashishekharsingh4652
      @shashishekharsingh4652 3 місяці тому +3

      So not a prime..

    • @taterpun6211
      @taterpun6211 3 місяці тому +7

      Can somebody check if the digits add up to a multiple of 9?

  • @Neodynium.the_permanent_magnet
    @Neodynium.the_permanent_magnet 3 місяці тому +6

    "ends in 551", would have been fun if the end is "552"

  • @showkatahmad3479
    @showkatahmad3479 Місяць тому +1

    Every Mersenne Prime number >3, can be written as 6x+1, where x is a positive integer.

    • @Xanthe_Cat
      @Xanthe_Cat Місяць тому

      Yes, but this is not determinative of primality since *any* odd exponent (prime or not) will yield a Mersenne number (prime or not) which is 1 (mod 6).

  • @ed_halley
    @ed_halley 3 місяці тому

    Props to you for writing and reciting your script to fit the digit clip length so smoothly.

  • @toothlessblue
    @toothlessblue 3 місяці тому +115

    I love that it was discovered by an engineer annoyed by the misuse of GPUs for AI

    • @volundrfrey896
      @volundrfrey896 3 місяці тому +30

      So he misused GPU's because he was annoyed with people misusing GPU's?
      The only valid use of a GPU is to play MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure

  • @StarlitWitchy
    @StarlitWitchy 3 місяці тому +8

    Oh!!!!! We THOUGHT it looked like Esperance!!!
    It's such a beautiful place!!! Enjoy your stay here in Australia hehehe~

    • @zoomlines
      @zoomlines 3 місяці тому +1

      Yes! No mistaking it! Beautiful white beaches and rocky islands!

  • @ggb3147
    @ggb3147 3 місяці тому +18

    UA-cam's compression algorithm is like: "what the heck?!"

    • @csours
      @csours 3 місяці тому +2

      Bitrate: And I took that personally

  • @treyquattro
    @treyquattro 3 місяці тому

    can we just take a moment to congratulate Matt on that excellent timing announcing the end of the sequence. I was trying not to blink and I don't think I missed any video cuts. Kudos.

  • @antonnym214
    @antonnym214 2 місяці тому +1

    Congrats to the GIMPS team! I was a member of the team for five years back in the mid 2000s, and I'm exceedingly proud of the entire team. Of course, congrats to George Woltman and Mihai Preda who wrote the GIMPS software for graphics cards, also kudos and congratulations to the official winner, Mr. Luke Durant, Aaron Blosser, and everyone who contributed computer time, as you all share in this world record. All good wishes, my friends!

  • @ChipsandPeas
    @ChipsandPeas 3 місяці тому +16

    But is it numberwang?

  • @boazgoldstein5419
    @boazgoldstein5419 3 місяці тому +16

    The running numbers are crushing the compression

  • @kernicterus1233
    @kernicterus1233 3 місяці тому +12

    Sorry for the delayed reply, it was difficult to concentrate on the actual numbers whilst you were talking, so I had to replay that whole section, but I blinked too many times, so I kept pausing it before blinking.
    This all took a while and I couldn't be sure I'd seen them all so I repeated that entire section, at 0.25 speed, and muted (to eliminate aural distraction), and with a pillow case covering your portion of the screen (to eliminate visual distraction).
    I've done as asked, I've seen every digit, and you know what ... I found my date of birth in there - 071171 (November not July) - and this is the 7048th prime. I'm taking a quick break to take some paracetamol and to write this before I start looking for 898409 - the 71171th prime - I'm certain it will be there somewhere.
    Enjoy your hols, Nottingham is currently quite cold.

  • @GabrielGamerFreitas
    @GabrielGamerFreitas 3 місяці тому +1

    what a time to be alive! and people still think there’s nothing else to be discovered…

  • @matthewdutton9910
    @matthewdutton9910 3 місяці тому

    Thanks for giving us the news!!

  • @Big-The-Dave
    @Big-The-Dave 3 місяці тому +4

    A number so large it ruins your bitrate.
    It's like watching someone play Vampire Survivors, but you're fighting a prime number instead of vampires.

  • @diamonddave2622
    @diamonddave2622 3 місяці тому +6

    Squint at the scrolling digits 'Magic Eye' style and you will see something amazing

  • @PopeLando
    @PopeLando 3 місяці тому +5

    5¾ years! 50 million powers of 2 with no Mersenne primes!

  • @piraterubberduck6056
    @piraterubberduck6056 3 місяці тому

    Great content, thank you for interrupting your holiday for this. I hope you enjoy your well deserved beer and days at the beach.

  • @emceeboogieboots1608
    @emceeboogieboots1608 3 місяці тому +1

    I saw from the thumbnail that you were at Twilight Beach in Esperance there. Nice to see the sun out!

    • @zoomlines
      @zoomlines 3 місяці тому +1

      Beautiful beach!

  • @Epic_Ducks1
    @Epic_Ducks1 3 місяці тому +10

    That’s quite big.

  • @berendharmsen
    @berendharmsen 3 місяці тому +6

    Question: does the fact that we now have this biggest prime, and previously we had a - smaller, obviously - biggest prime, also mean that we know there are no more primes in between these numbers? Or does the methodology mean you are forced to skip all kinds of (non-Mersenne?) primes in between?

    • @Paul71H
      @Paul71H 3 місяці тому +7

      I think it's likely that many non-Mersenne primes were skipped in between.

    • @gdclemo
      @gdclemo 3 місяці тому +2

      I think there is always a prime between N and 2N (except for very small N) but I don't remember who proved that.

    • @robertunderwood1011
      @robertunderwood1011 3 місяці тому +2

      The Mersenes are primes in base two.-1
      And in that base, they can be represented by a series of ones .
      In base 10 we found a few such numbers 11, 1111111111111111111, 11111111111111111111111 and a small handful of others repunit primes in base 10
      There are a list of generalized rep unit primes in various basis. I’m interested in generalized rep unit primes in prime bases ( other than the Mersenes)
      Question :
      If you know the rep United primes and say base seven and also know the rep unit primes in base 11 can you use this information to predict the rep units primes in base 77?

    • @berendharmsen
      @berendharmsen 3 місяці тому

      @@robertunderwood1011 That's way above my prime-knowledge paygrade 🙂

  • @edonveil9887
    @edonveil9887 3 місяці тому +6

    As close to aleph-null as the former record prime.

  • @93r83
    @93r83 3 місяці тому

    I always love finding out you are in WA randomly

  • @gtdp
    @gtdp 3 місяці тому +1

    Hi Matt, the first link in the description goes to an outdated press release from 2018, just to let you know... thanks for the excellent video!

  • @logicalfundy
    @logicalfundy 3 місяці тому +4

    Even with powerful computers, it's crazy we can verify something this large is prime. That's a very, very large number.

    • @ianstopher9111
      @ianstopher9111 3 місяці тому

      Is the last digit 0,2,4,6 or 8? Nope, ok onto the next check.

    • @logicalfundy
      @logicalfundy 3 місяці тому +5

      @@ianstopher9111 Congratulations! You've narrowed the search from 2^136,279,841-1 numbers to test to 2^136,279,840-1 numbers to test!
      Needless to say, it's a bit more complicated than that, heh. Raising 2 to such an incredibly high power is mind bogglingly large.

  • @theaussiewaffle4276
    @theaussiewaffle4276 3 місяці тому +7

    So they found the new Optimus Prime

    • @carultch
      @carultch 3 місяці тому +2

      Optimus Prime is Optimus's derivative
      Or Optimus Double Prime's antiderivative.

  • @whoeveriam0iam14222
    @whoeveriam0iam14222 3 місяці тому +20

    what's the largest prime number where we know all the prime numbers up to it? doubling your number every time before checking it misses a lot in between

    • @Einyen
      @Einyen 3 місяці тому +7

      What do you mean by "know"? Primes have been calculated up to at least 2^64 = 1.8 * 10^20 but storing all those would take exabytes and more of storage, and there is no real point to store them. Those we need to use again are almost always faster to calculate again than retrieving from storage.
      If you mean how high do we know the exact number of primes below that limit, then it is: 10^29, there are 1,520,698,109,714,272,166,094,258,063 primes below 10^29.
      So this is tiny compared to the new prime, only 30 digits compared to 41,024,320 digits.

    • @alexpotts6520
      @alexpotts6520 3 місяці тому +8

      ​@@Einyen I'd never have thought that storage space rather than processing speed would become the limiting factor in enumerating the primes, but yeah, actually that makes perfect sense.

    • @Oh_Nanners
      @Oh_Nanners 3 місяці тому

      @@alexpotts6520 can't compress a prime number, yeah

    • @Einyen
      @Einyen 3 місяці тому +4

      @@alexpotts6520 Yeah, exactly. From the prime number theorem there are roughly n / ln n primes below n.
      So for example near 10^20: ln (10^20) ~ 46, so roughly every 46th number at that size is prime on average, and there are A LOT of numbers around that size, so even 1/46th of them is still A LOT of primes, far too many to store on any storage media we possess.

    • @benjaminlynch9958
      @benjaminlynch9958 3 місяці тому +2

      @@Einyenstorage media is not that expensive for storing raw numerical values like this. 2^64 ≈ 18.4 quintillion (18.4 x10^18) and if stored in binary representation, you could fit 128 such prime numbers in just a single kilobyte. For those wanting every possible Prime below a certain threshold, particularly those that are not Mersenne primes and are computationally expensive to find and prove, storing them makes a lot of sense.

  • @LeoDaBest_180_Returns
    @LeoDaBest_180_Returns 2 місяці тому +1

    I don't want to sound strange, but for me, I understand this as: INDETERMINACY Of-All A.I. Measurement ---> To measure the POWER, true potential, of the Artificial Intelligence.

  • @bluefishactcl1464
    @bluefishactcl1464 3 місяці тому

    Thank you !
    Great videos and great news.

  • @8bit_pineapple
    @8bit_pineapple 3 місяці тому +32

    All of the digits in binary are:
    1

    • @MathewWalls
      @MathewWalls 3 місяці тому +2

      Or 0.

    • @MonsieurBiga
      @MonsieurBiga 3 місяці тому +20

      @@MathewWalls No, it's 1 less than a power of 2, so it's all ones.

    • @cbuchner1
      @cbuchner1 3 місяці тому +3

      Should have printed the binary number instead 😂 a lot easier for the compression algorithm…

    • @Dimitri_gdr
      @Dimitri_gdr 3 місяці тому

      The hexadecimal would be even better

    • @cbuchner1
      @cbuchner1 3 місяці тому

      @@Dimitri_gdr ffffff …… 🤡

  • @soyalguien335yt4
    @soyalguien335yt4 3 місяці тому +3

    What a coincidence! Today they also found the largest perfect number that is knowm

  • @Zilli_341
    @Zilli_341 3 місяці тому +6

    The YT compression algorithm is having a stroke

  • @rogerperkins
    @rogerperkins 3 місяці тому +1

    Imagine there are twin primes bigger than this number.

  • @johnjones8580
    @johnjones8580 3 місяці тому +1

    Imagine printing this prime number out, only to discover it's the first of a set of twin primes.

  • @petergerdes1094
    @petergerdes1094 3 місяці тому +5

    The next video should calculate how many times the average human needs to watch this video to see every digit.
    It would be a great way to boost views as well as being amusing.

  • @fabianziel873
    @fabianziel873 3 місяці тому +27

    There‘s an error in 3:07 . The leading 4 should be a 7…

    • @Johnz28
      @Johnz28 3 місяці тому +2

      🤓

    • @AnubhabKamar
      @AnubhabKamar 3 місяці тому +1

      Yes.. and the last digit should be 9 😂😂

  • @SteveThePster
    @SteveThePster 3 місяці тому +4

    Easier to remember the digits when written in binary

    • @hoperanker8395
      @hoperanker8395 3 місяці тому

      Then the jokes switch from "hey that fifth nine in frame 806 should be a one" to "oh jeez i think you missed a one over on page 7375."

    • @erdos73
      @erdos73 3 місяці тому

      it's still quite easy to remember the base10 digits if they're not in order :p

    • @Vampire-Catgirl
      @Vampire-Catgirl 3 місяці тому

      It's only slightly less easy to remember all the digits in base 16

  • @petwaterbottles
    @petwaterbottles 3 місяці тому +1

    oh god the bitrate

  • @heighRick
    @heighRick 3 місяці тому

    Thanks MAtt, helps a lot!

  • @ggb3147
    @ggb3147 3 місяці тому +54

    Sorry to be that guy but i spotted a misprint at 6:06. There should be 6 instead of 9 in row 16. You're welcome!

    • @Speedrunner.007
      @Speedrunner.007 3 місяці тому +16

      there's no way that actually happened, matt should have double checked the number before uploading!

    • @djadj_
      @djadj_ 3 місяці тому +22

      it's a parker prime

    • @Xanthe_Cat
      @Xanthe_Cat 3 місяці тому

      It wouldn’t be so bad if it was only a single case of "sorry to be that guy" but there’s easily a dozen of you in these comments who've *all* tried the same unfunny joke…

    • @Ursi_
      @Ursi_ 3 місяці тому

      @@Xanthe_Cat dang let people have some fun!

  • @walker1054
    @walker1054 3 місяці тому +19

    If you're trying to find the largest prime number would it not be easier to count backwards from the end instead of keep counting upwards to find more?

  • @OBGynKenobi
    @OBGynKenobi 3 місяці тому +20

    Now, How long of a continuous PI sequence can you find inside that?

    • @huellenoperator
      @huellenoperator 3 місяці тому +5

      The decimal expansion contains 3141592, but not 31415926

    • @janTasita
      @janTasita 3 місяці тому +11

      Well, the whole thing is a sequence of the digits of pi, just not starting at the beginning.

    • @TymexComputing
      @TymexComputing 3 місяці тому

      There exists a base where all of the numbers are pi.

    • @OBGynKenobi
      @OBGynKenobi 3 місяці тому

      @@TymexComputing now this I like!

    • @ianstopher9111
      @ianstopher9111 3 місяці тому +1

      Almost certainly that sequence of digits appears somewhere in the decimal expansion of pi. Moreover, the binary expansion of pi should have a sequence of at least 136,279,841 1s, but good luck finding the first occurrence.

  • @robertschreur5138
    @robertschreur5138 3 місяці тому +2

    2^136,279,841 - 1 is the small prime factor of TREE(3) - 1

  • @judclark7376
    @judclark7376 3 місяці тому +2

    It's actually 10 if you use my new base

  • @nictamer
    @nictamer 3 місяці тому +7

    You should display it in base 2.

    • @phizc
      @phizc 3 місяці тому

      Then the video would have to be more than 22 minutes, 42 seconds... 😅

    • @voodootrois
      @voodootrois 3 місяці тому +5

      This would solve the compression bit rate problem.

    • @ianstopher9111
      @ianstopher9111 3 місяці тому +2

      Display it in hex, like a normal person would use.

    • @voodootrois
      @voodootrois 3 місяці тому +3

      "Write a Mersenne prime in hexadecimal to pay respects."

    • @randomcoder5
      @randomcoder5 3 місяці тому

      @@ianstopher9111 1FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF...