dnoworyta/gimps repository overview

⁠What is GIMPS

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available software to search for Mersenne prime numbers. As of December 2018, the project has found a total of seventeen Mersenne primes, fifteen of which were the largest known prime number at their respective times of discovery. The largest known prime as of December 2018 is 282,589,933 − 1 (or M82,589,933 in short). This prime was discovered on December 7, 2018 by Patrick Laroche.

https://www.mersenne.org/⁠