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The 52nd Mersenne Prime is 2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹-1. Lovely write-up with lots of background at https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841
Write-up notes that someone asked the question “why search for these large primes?” If you have to ask there’s nothing anyone can say that’ll help you.
Humorously glib, but they link to an entire write-up answering the question (second section with 7 items),
https://www.mersenne.org/why_join/
because with the state of education today, someone intellectually curious enough to ask questions deserves better than dismissal.
@timbray Have you claimed a chunk at https://saytheprime.com/? (I love this idea. Perhaps you were the one who linked to it a few days ago? Mastodon search isn't helping me; sorry if I'm repeating old news.)
@timbray I'm reading that and thinking, who's paying for all that cloud capacity? Spot instances surely, but A100/H100 are still expensive.