You should end up with a list of 25 prime numbers between 1 and 100. These are shown in the grid below.

Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into ...

Record-Breaking Prime Number, 41 Million Digits Long, Blows Mathematicians’ Minds ...

After a six-year drought, we now have a new largest known prime number, thanks to an amateur mathematics sleuth who deployed an army of graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch through the ...

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 ...

Called M136279841, the value belongs to a rare class of prime numbers called Mersenne primes and was found using a supercomputer system spread across 17 countries Margherita Bassi Daily ...

A new prime number has been discovered that is more than ... the Electronic Frontier Foundation offers a $150,000 prize for the discovery of a 100 million digit prime. Durant is expected to ...

That night, Oct. 12, he was wrong. Durant had discovered the world’s new largest prime number. He quickly told his partner that this was going to complicate the trip, then got to work double-che ...

A prime number has exactly two factors, itself and one. The first ten prime numbers are \({2}\), \({3}\), \({5}\), \({7}\), \({11}\), \({13}\), \({17}\), \({19 ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Prime numbers are beautiful, mysterious, and beguiling mathematical objects. The ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, are divisible only by themselves and 1. The first ...