Identifying prime numbers among small integers is relatively simple, but the task becomes Herculean with large numbers. This complexity has pushed researchers to develop more sophisticated methods ...

What Ono and his team have now discovered is that partitions —a concept that counts the ways a number can be broken down into sums of smaller integers— contain hidden patterns capable of revealing ...

Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for thousands of years—and now cloud computing is helping them chase the biggest ones yet.

Eight of the 10 largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes, so GIMPS and cloud computing are poised to play a prominent role in the search for record-breaking large prime numbers.

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In 'Prime Target,' Leo Woodall plays a mathlete attempting to crack the code in prime numbers, and attempts to escape an unknown threat.

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 ...

With the help of just a few thousand graphics cards spread across 17 countries' datacenters and some free software, Durant discovered the world's largest known prime number: 2 136,279,841 -1.

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography.

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.