A new record has been set in mathematics! Luke Durant, an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee, has discovered the largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits. This achievement used free software called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) and harnessed thousands of graphics processing units across 24 data centers worldwide.

Source: https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/largest-known-prime-number-spanning-41-million-digits-discovered-by-amateur-mathematician-using-free-software