It’s quite another again to find the prime factors of a number fifty digits long. Though the best mathematicians have chewed on the problem for hundreds of years, there just doesn’t seem to be ...

So is the set of all numbers that have exactly two or three or 100 prime factors. Primitive sets were introduced by the mathematician Paul Erdős in the 1930s.

We have known for millennia that an infinite number of prime numbers, i.e., 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc., can be divided by themselves and the number 1 only.

All numbers can be broken down into their prime factors Quantum computers could one day threaten the safety of the internet by breaking encryption – and now they are a step closer. A quantum ...

Technology Computer made of DNA works out prime factors of 6 and 15 Simple calculations, such as factoring low numbers, can be made by mixing together differently shaped strands of DNA By Karmela ...