(Phys.org) —Two math and physics researchers from the University's of Barcelona and Madrid respectively have developed an algorithm to count prime numbers using a quantum computer. José Latorre ...

For centuries, prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians, from ancient artifacts to modern tech. Now, cloud computing and ...

“It depends on the application,” he says. There are other sieves or algorithms to identify prime numbers. But Helfgott notes the sieve of Eratosthenes is different in that it also can work ...

A 300-billion-digit number is the biggest known pseudoprime, a number which looks like a prime but isn’t ... and colleague Steven Hayman created an algorithm that looks at a list of numbers ...

A million-dollar puzzle relating to prime numbers could be tackled using only ... has devised the first quantum algorithm to count primes. Quantum computers should be faster than ordinary ones ...