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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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368 points sdsykes | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 11:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
1. gcanyon ◴[22 Oct 24 13:50 UTC] No.41914242[source]▶
Anyone have a sense of how much money/electrical power is being spent to discover these primes? I'm not about to argue for bitcoin calculations over this, I'm just curious how it compares.