For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

A supercomputer has something for the record books. A computer has found the largest known prime number. It's 22 million digits long. Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search — -- Here's one for the ...

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 ...