It's been nearly six years since math devotees discovered the last largest known prime number, but the bar has officially been raised by over 16 million digits. On October 21, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a global community project dedicated to finding these incomprehensibly huge numbers, confirmed the 52nd Mersenne prime number is (drumroll, please) 2136279841-1. To translate, that's equivalent to multiplying the number 2 together 136,279,841 times, then subtracting 1. The latest mathematical figure stretches to include 41,024,320 digits--a number so gargantuan that the .txt Formed in 1999, GIMPS relies on an international network of volunteers who download specialized software that harnesses their computers' unused programming capabilities to search for exceptionally large Mersenne prime numbers.

GIMP (short for GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a very capable open-source image editing app akin to Adobe Photoshop. It's been around since 1998 and it's still in active development to this day. Sure, the keyboard shortcuts aren't quite the same and the interface is far from professional, but GIMP can do a lot of the same image manipulation, photo retouching, effects editing, and composition adjustments that Photoshop can do -- and it does it all for free. GIMP can't do everything that Photoshop can do, like using AI to perform generative fill effects. But GIMP is far from useless.

The plugins have been tested with GIMP 2.10 on the following machines: [1] macOS Catalina 10.15.3 [2] ubuntu 18.04 LTS