In this case, however, Durant’s Mersenne prime number find may provide a very clear example of how GPU cloud supercomputers can be used to advance far more than just controversial AI projects.

An example of a prime number is 13 as it only has two factors: 13 and 1, whereas 9 is not a prime number as it has three factors: 9, 3 and 1.

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography.

Two academics have shocked themselves and the world of mathematics by discovering a pattern in prime numbers. Primes - numbers greater than 1 that are divisible only by themselves and 1 – are ...

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