Resolution criteria

52 Mersenne primes are known, with the largest known prime number being 2^136279841 − 1, which is a Mersenne prime. This market resolves YES if M136279841 is confirmed as the 52nd known Mersenne prime. Resolution can be verified at the official GIMPS website: https://www.mersenne.org/primes

Background

M136279841 was initially identified as probably prime on October 11, 2024 by an NVIDIA A100 GPU in Dublin, Ireland, and confirmed with a Lucas-Lehmer test on October 12 by an NVIDIA H100 in San Antonio, Texas. This number has 41,024,320 decimal digits and is over 16 million digits larger than the previous record prime number. It has not been verified whether any undiscovered Mersenne primes exist between the 50th and 52nd on the official list; the ranking is therefore provisional.

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