A GIMPS survey has discovered a prime number with over 41 million digits, surpassing the previous record-holder by more than 16 million digits.

Math, too. “It looked like a game,” he said ... This new connection adds even more evidence to “the magic which is inside the integers,” Afsharijoo said. Every time the Rogers-Ramanujan identities pop ...

If you think about the entire range of whole numbers—that is, the infinitude of integers—you’ll see ... Another fascinating area of math with many implications for programming is modular ...

Definition: Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted to the study of the natural numbers and the integers. It is the study of the set of positive whole numbers which are usually called ...

The conjecture tackled by Sam Mattheus, a postdoctoral researcher at Vrije University in Brussels, and Jacques Verstraete, a professor of mathematics at the University ... patterns forming within ...

A new way to store numbers in computers can dynamically prioritise accuracy or range, depending on need, allowing software to quickly switch between very large and small numbers ...

But most modern encryption technologies now use 1024- to 2048-bit integers. A 1024-bit integer has 1.797 x 10^308 possible values, while a 2048-bit integer has 3.231 x 10^616 possible values.

With smaller primes, say 11, it's an easy task. Simply divide it by all the smaller integers (1-10) and see if you are left with any integers. If it is only divisible by 1 and itself, it's a prime ...