(Phys.org) —Two math and physics researchers from the University's of Barcelona and Madrid respectively have developed an algorithm to count prime numbers using a quantum computer. José Latorre ...

a mathematician at Dartmouth College and coauthor of the book Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective. The chances of an imposter slipping through the algorithm’s clever checking mechanism ...

A million-dollar puzzle relating to prime numbers could be tackled using only ... has devised the first quantum algorithm to count primes. Quantum computers should be faster than ordinary ones ...