And you think you have problems. Consider the one that Dr. Bruce Dodson has been working on. It only took 50 computers and three months to solve — no time at all, when you consider that it would have ...

Calculator.io introduces a Prime Factorization Calculator, aiding in efficient number decomposition for education and research. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA, January 22 ...

There are adiabatic factoring algorithms and methods. Dwave is focused on optimization problems, however the system can be used to solve other problems including factoring. In November 2014, it was ...

Any number can, in theory, be written as the product of prime numbers. For small numbers, this is easy (for example, the prime factors of 12 are 2, 2, and 3), but for large numbers, prime ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In 1847, Gabriel Lamé proved Fermat’s Last Theorem. Or so he thought. Lamé was a French mathematician who had made many important discoveries. In March ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...