(Phys.org)—Researchers have set a new record for the quantum factorization of the largest number to date, 56,153, smashing the previous record of 143 that was set in 2012. They have shown that the ...

It's prime time for the newly discovered prime number, which is nearly a million digits larger than the previous record holder. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture ...

Math lovers rejoice at this mind-boggling discovery. A professor at the University of Central Missouri harnessed the power of a research computer to calculate what is now the world's largest ever ...

Update, Jan. 4, 2018: On Wednesday, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search announced that a computer owned by Jonathan Pace in Germantown, Tennessee, discovered a new prime number. At 23,249,425 ...