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(CNN) — You know you’re a geek if you felt all warm and fuzzy inside when you read that headline. If you got here by accident, here’s the news: The biggest prime number yet has been discovered. It is ...

Mathematicians have spent millennia trying to understand prime numbers – those only divisible by themselves and 1 – but so far no one has discovered a pattern for the primes. Now mathematician Simon ...

A prime number is a whole number greater than one that has exactly two factors. Those two factors are one and the number itself. This definition is found across many school curriculums. Examples ...