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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a civil liberty group that offers cash prizes for identifying large primes. It awarded prizes in 2000 and 2009 for the first verified 1 million-digit and 10 ...

Large prime number enthusiasts’ next two challenges are to identify the first 100 million-digit and 1 billion-digit primes. EFF prizes of US$150,000 and $250,000, respectively, await the first ...

In 1640, Pierre de Fermat conjectured that there are infinitely many primes that can be formulated by squaring two whole numbers and adding them together. (The prime number 13, for instance, can ...

Math enthusiasts challenge one another to find special prime numbers, ... According to this, the expected number of Smarandache primes up to n = 10 6 is around 0.6.

First, consider a handful of the smallest primes — like 2, 3, 5 and 7. Then list all the numbers that aren’t divisible by those primes. These numbers are the rough primes. In this case, you end up ...

The study of prime numbers is not just a historical curiosity. Number theory is also essential to modern cryptography. Close Menu. Subscribe to the newsletter ... Imagine a number made up of a vast ...

Imagine a number made up of a vast string of ones: 1111111…111. Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. ... First, it’s a prime number (meaning it is only divisible by itself and one). Second, it’s ...