A decades-old rule in mathematics has just been pushed beyond its long-standing limits, opening new ground for how scientists describe the physical world. At the University of Vaasa in Finland, ...

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Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

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Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

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Comparison of Gauss's and Legendre's formula in approximating the prime counting function along with results analysis. Unified constructive and non-constructive proofs of three number theory problems: ...

ABSTRACT: By our suggested definition, an even number Ln is called the largest strong Goldbach number generated by the n-th prime Pn if every even number from 4 to Ln is the sum of two primes not ...

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Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...

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