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One year, 41M digits: How Luke Durant found the largest known prime number

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60 points ortusdux | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 20:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wodenokoto ◴[07 Nov 24 07:15 UTC] No.42074324[source]▶
My understanding is that he used to be an engineer at NVIDIA. And while I know salaries can be quite high in the US, I didn't realize they where high enough to let you spend $2 million for a 1 year hobby project.
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1. 01100011 ◴[07 Nov 24 09:19 UTC] No.42075056[source]▶
Luke didn't just work at NVIDIA. He spent over ten years there and was, for a while, one of the CUDA architects.