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Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them

A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented ...
UPI

Tech revolutionizes centuries-old search for prime numbers

May 30 (UPI) --A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique - the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have ...
Yahoo

One year, 41 million digits: How he found the largest known prime number

Luke Durant was folding his laundry right into his suitcase ahead of a trip back home to Alabama when he decided to check his computer and see if he had made history. He figured that, like every other ...
EDN

A 22-million-digit prime number was just discovered and it’s the largest to date; so why should you care?

A new 22 million digit long prime number was discovered by a computer at the University of Central Missouri. This number, which is abbreviated as 2 74,207,281 – 1, is five million digits longer the ...
New Scientist

Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits

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 ...