On this episode of The Big Number, Tom Haberstroh and Dan Devine break down Ja Morant's unique, disturbing decline in PPG the last 3 years. Could Ja actually be past his prime already? The chaos ...

offers a new way of understanding prime numbers using the mathematical concept of partitions. Prime numbers, which are divisible only by 1 and themselves, have puzzled mathematicians for centuries.

mathlete determined to find a pattern in prime numbers. Cracking the code to prime numbers, figures only divisible by one and itself, means access to any computer across the globe. This also makes ...

Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for centuries with their unpredictable and seemingly random distribution. In a groundbreaking preprint study, researchers devised a novel method that ...

Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime ... using GPUs and the new software and see if that can accelerate time to the newest, largest prime number.

For many people, prime numbers have faded ... that more primes will be discovered using GPUs in the future. “GPUs are so good at tackling difficult number crunching compared to CPUs which ...

Mathematicians typically used formulas to test whether a large number was prime or not, an approach which in later years began to be applied using special computer software. Luke Durant ...

GIMPS, which Durant also belongs to, then verified that M136279841 was a prime number using multiple programs and confirmed that it was a prime number. This was the first update of the largest ...

flagged M136279841 as a potential prime number using the Fermat probable prime test. The next day, an NVIDIA H100 in San Antonio confirmed the finding with a primality test called the Lucas-Lehmer ...