Speaker 0:  nvidia has just discovered the largest known prime number.

Speaker 1:  cool. yeah. so

Speaker 0:  yeah. go ahead.

Speaker 1:  but

Speaker 0:  i was gonna say it just blows past the previous record by sixteen million digits.

Speaker 1:  yes. so the cool thing about this prime number, which is, mersenne prime, it's so large that it would take over two thousand pages to print out fully. think about that. that's crazy. so they the nvidia researchers, they were able to discover this because of their gpus, their technology, but this is a significant breakthrough in the field of mathematics. so how they were able to do this was because their gpu technology allows for massive parallel processing capabilities. so it showcases the company's technology prowess, but also the importance of advanced computing. now prime numbers, for those of you that don't know, are numbers which are only divisible by one and themselves. so they've long fascinated mathematicians, and, they do have practical applications in various fields like cryptography and computer science. but, yeah, this is a huge leap forward. i don't know what specific use case can be used with this huge prime number, but, i'm sure there's something.

Speaker 0:  yeah. durant used a supercomputer comprised of thousands of gpus in seventeen different countries to find wow. to find the number. first with an nvidia a one hundred in ireland and later confirmed by an nvidia h one hundred in texas. for his efforts, durant will receive three thousand dollars from gimps.

Speaker 1:  sorry. yeah. there was something i think it was neil degrasse tyson was saying, like, scientists who are doing research for the good of the hue of humans are paid peanuts, whereas, nba and nhl players are paid millions and millions of dollars just for entertainment. right? so it's crazy.

Speaker 0:  i should mention, because it says this at the art at the end of the article, the recent prime number warranted a three thousand dollars reward, and we laughed at that. but the first hundred million digit prime will warrant a hundred fifty thousand dollar prize, and two hundred fifty thousand dollars for the first billion digit prime. so, you know, all you people out there, what are you waiting for?

Speaker 1:  do it.

Speaker 0:  yeah. let's get on it.

Speaker 1:  you want to join us. let's figure it out.

Speaker 0:  yeah. this, you know, it marks a new error in harnessing computational power for scientific advancement. this is sounding really exciting from, how we could use this in, role of advanced gpu, current research, how it could help with, ai driven technologies. it at a fundamental level where we're talking about computer distribution and pulling all this stuff together, we're really now talking about, you know, being able to do almost anything with computers. and, seeing this type of thing come from just a regular person leveraging these computers using a free program yeah. you know, is amazing.

Speaker 1:  yeah. it is. it's it it'll be interesting to see who comes up with something next. like, who comes up with the next and how they do it. are they gonna use quantum computers for it, or are they going to use, are they gonna use just a bunch of gpus? so i'm really interested to see where this goes next.

Speaker 0:  yeah. because, you know, we just reached this computational level, but, you know, that's fantastic. but what's next? what's next? when we see elon musk is building the, most powerful ai supercomputer in the world, if he doesn't already have one, he's he's, you know, with over two hundred, h one hundreds or whatever they are, along along with everyone else building these nuclear power plants to power their ai, this stuff is gonna be just accelerate exponentially beyond what we can imagine.

Speaker 1:  yeah. yeah. i'm excited. yeah.

Speaker 0:  i'm excited too, because is, like it's a brave new world. and yeah.

Speaker 1:  you know,

Speaker 0:  this is gonna have huge impacts on cryptography security. you know, we tell you said you mentioned at the beginning the future of mathematical research, all sorts of technological implications. and we'll see. you know, this is not even using quantum computers. right? so no.

Speaker 1:  exactly. yeah. there was actually an article that, that was speaking about how a regular computer beats i think we talked about it too. beat quantum computers. yeah. certain things. yeah.

Speaker 0:  and then we had an article that says, hey. finally, a thing that quantum computers are better at no than normal computers. and guess what?

Speaker 1:  it's yeah.

Speaker 0:  has to do with, working with quantum computers.

Speaker 1:  yeah. so

Speaker 0:  there's a great article over here on toronto starts dot com on the nvidia's quantum leap in mathematics and what it means, the discovery of this new largest, prime number, and that's what the podcast points to. it's a great article. we'd love to hear your feedback on what this means yeah. and what you think it means for the future.