Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Prime numbers are those ...

Mersenne numbers are named after Fr Mersenne, a 16th century Italian mathematician. What are Mersenne numbers? Mersenne numbers are named after Fr Mersenne, a 16th century Italian mathematician. They ...

After I first learned about prime numbers as a kidlet, I became quite fond of them -- a fondness that continues to this day, although I cannot explain why they are so appealing. But even amongst those ...

A new prime number has been discovered that is more than 16 million digits larger than the largest prime number ever found. The number is 2^136279841-1, which is 41,024,320 decimal digits and would ...

Prime numbers are quite extraordinary. They're like "special snowflakes" - unique in the way that they don't have any other positive divisors other than the number 1 and the prime number itself.

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the new largest known prime number, having 22,338,618 digits, on a university computer volunteered by Curtis Cooper for the project. The ...

Mersenne prime refers to a prime number among Mersenne numbers which is "a natural number less than 1 to the power of 2". According to GIMPS, the 50th Mersenne prime "M77232917" is 23,249,494 digits, ...

Today's website is geared for math geeks in search of really big prime numbers--you remember them don't you? Prime numbers are numbers greater than one that only divide evenly by itself and 1; numbers ...