That certainly hasn’t stopped mathematicians —both professional and amateur—from trying to ferret out new ones. In fact, in 1996, computer scientist George Woltman started a project known as the Great ...

Formed in 1999, GIMPS relies on an international network of volunteers who download specialized software that harnesses their ...

Called M136279841, the value belongs to a rare class of prime numbers called Mersenne primes and was found using a ...

Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher who attended the Alabama School of Math and Science, has discovered the largest prime ...

Luke Durant was folding his laundry right into his suitcase ahead of a trip back home to Alabama when he decided to check his ...

An amateur mathematician has managed to find the largest prime number yet. Finding prime numbers, which are only divisible by ...

Each week, Tom Haberstroh pours over the data and digs through the stats to come up with The Big Number – the one metric that defines the NBA that week. Tune in as he and Dan Devine put Tom’s big ...

The number of undocumented immigrants that will supposedly vote in the election is large enough to change the result of the election. Without these supposed "illegal" votes, Trump would win.

If the numbers are what they are, then we need to man SOF (Special Operations Forces) to the numbers we can man to [...] More ...

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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, large numbers of people work in dangerous, unregulated mines, digging for cobalt – a mineral used in the batteries found in phones, laptops, and electric vehicles.

Cyclonic storm ‘Dana’, formed over east-central Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, is set to bring heavy rainfall in several southern West Bengal districts, including Kolkata, the IMD said. Eastern and South ...