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prime numbers
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Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits
There is a new largest known prime Panther Media GmbH/Alamy After a six-year drought, we now have a…
October 22, 2024
Mathematicians have found a new way to identify prime numbers
Can you find the primes? ROBERT BROOK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY For the first time in more than 25 years,…
October 18, 2024
Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof
An attempt to settle a decade-long argument over a controversial proof by mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has seen a…
March 28, 2024