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New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer(sherwood.news)

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According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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Blackmist@feddit.uk
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What Lemmy client are you using? Looks OK on the web and Jerboa.

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mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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Sync for Lemmy.

Here’s the source of their comment.

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tb_@lemmy.world
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Sync still uses Reddit’s markdown rules, Lemmy is a little different.

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Blackmist@feddit.uk
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Well this was 8 months ago.

https://lemmy.world/post/12509081

Still outstanding on Github

https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/477

I assume the numbers never made business sense for them to continue development.

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Gingernate@programming.dev
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I’m also using sync

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lud@lemm.ee
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I also use sync but the formatting and a bunch of other stuff is unfortunately pretty broken.

I don’t think we will ever get a fix either ;(

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/home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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Using Eternity and formatting was off for me. Second reply comment was good though

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Using Boost and it’s off for me as well.

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