Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight

Thursday January 3, 2019. 05:25 PM , from TheRegister

Processor thrashed by GIMPS
The largest prime number made up over 24 million digits has been discovered by a lone IT professional quietly crunching numbers with an Intel CPU in December.…

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