While they don't have as many prime-time games as the Kansas City Chiefs, the Seahawks still landed a decent amount. Seattle has four prime-time matchups , starting with a Week 4 showdown against ...

For many people, prime numbers have faded into the background ... in an email. “Maybe (the program’s) best use will be inspiring the next generation of young mathematicians.” ...

A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former Nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units. Viola Lopes ...

A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former Nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units. Viola Lopes ...

More savings would come from the insight that you don’t need to check every smaller prime, either—only those up to the square root of 99,400,891 (the number that, when multiplied by itself ...

A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former Nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units.

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — For many people, prime numbers have faded into the background since distant grade school days. However, for Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer ...

The amateur mathematician found the new largest prime number dubbed “M136279841”, calculated by multiplying together 136,279,841 twos, and then subtracting 1.

A new prime number has been discovered that is more than 16 million digits larger than the largest prime number ever found. The number is 2^136279841-1, which is 41,024,320 decimal digits and ...

Called M136279841, the value belongs to a rare class of prime numbers called Mersenne primes and was found using a supercomputer system spread across 17 countries.

Proving numbers are prime gets really interesting. 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.

Durant, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, found the new prime number using only publicly available unused cloud storage space. Durant, who made his money off the boom, said he ...