Prime numbers are whole numbers greater than 1 that are not divisible by any whole number other than 1 and itself. The first few are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 … To explain how the RSA algorithm works ...

Therefore, if an 'algorithm that enables prime factorization of a huge number of digits' is developed, its safety will be shaken.

UCLA mathematicians appear to have won a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a 13-million-digit prime number that has long been sought by computer users.

Fortunately, Édouard Lucas developed a prime number test in 1878, later proved by Derrick Henry Lehmer in 1930. Their work resulted in an efficient algorithm for evaluating potential Mersenne ...

An online collective, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, crunched numbers for days on end to discover a new prime number in December 2017. Here’s why it’s so important.

This article is more than 9 years old. A few days ago I wrote about the discovery of the largest known prime number, the Mersenne prime M (74,207,281), a 22-million-digit number.

Prime Number Notes: This article presents well drafted notes on Prime Numbers which will help students clear their concepts of this prominent part of number theory. Download notes in PDF.