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 ...

A million-dollar puzzle relating to prime numbers could be tackled using only a mid-sized quantum computer. There is a race to find ever bigger primes , but no way to predict when the next one ...

Mathematician Jean Carlos Cortissoz Iriarte, of Cornell University and Los Andes University, says that in order to know how good an algorithm is, one has to consider two factors: the number of ...