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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 ...
al.com

Researcher who studied in Alabama discovers largest known prime number with 41 million digits

Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher who attended the Alabama School of Math and Science, has discovered the largest prime number known to mathematicians. The number, dubbed M136279841, has ...
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 ...
The Hechinger Report

The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...