Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...

Narrator: Prime Numbers are numbers which can only be divided by themselves and 1. And Prime factors are the prime numbers which multiply together to make a number. It can take some time to work out ...

Big news for big numbers. There’s a new entry in the Largest Known Primes Database, a list of numbers divisible only by one and themselves. At nine million digits long, 10223 × 2 31172165 + 1 comes in ...

V.O: Take a look. What do you see? What do you see! Numbers, well done… Give yourself a healthy sugar free snack and take the rest of the day off… NO! Think it was going to be this easy? You're about ...