Prime Number Theorem

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;      83 words ...Prime Number Theorem For a positive real number x , let π ( x ) be the number of primes less than or equal to x . The Prime Number Theorem says that, as x → ∞,In other words, for large values of x , π ( x ) is approximately equal to x 7/ln x . This gives, in a ...

Computer team hunts largest prime number. (Originated from Knight-Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 6, 1993 ;     680 words ......the world could have a prodigious new prime number. It is 1,262,612 digits long, would...proving the existence of the largest prime number ever discovered. They warn that it's...Wednesday. If F22 turns out to be a prime number, ``it will definitely be the largest...

Mo. Researchers Find Largest Prime Number

AP Online;  January 4, 2006 ;     295 words ......University has discovered the largest known prime number, university officials said Tuesday...of numbers called Mersenne primes. A prime number is a positive number that is only divisible...power minus 1, where "p" also is a prime number. The team programmed 700 university...

Michigan student finds largest known prime number

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 11, 2003 ;     385 words ......Michigan student finds largest known prime number -- Computers linked for search By JIM...years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University...larger than the previous largest known prime number. Shafer, 26, helped find the number...

Interview: Michael Shafer discusses discovering the largest known prime...

NPR Special;  December 5, 2003 ;     669 words ......discusses discovering the largest known prime number Host: MADELEINE BRAND Time: 4:00-5:00...graduate student, discovered the largest prime number ever. DAY TO DAY's Mike Pesca called...Shafer, let's get very, very basic. A prime number is a number that can't be divided evenly...

The Prime Number Theorem.(Book review)

School Science and Mathematics;  January 1, 2008 ;     454 words ...The Prime Number Theorem Author: Graham J.O. Jameson...chapters where the basic account of the prime number theorem is contained in the first...problem of error estimates in the prime number theorem and similar results. The text...

Discovery of new prime number boggles mind

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  December 11, 2003 ;     358 words ......years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University...larger than the previous largest known prime number. Shafer, 26, helped find the number...and saw "New Mersenne prime found." A prime number is a positive number divisible only...

French Inventors Develop Random Prime Number Generation Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 13, 2006 ;     365 words ......developed a method for generating a random prime number within a predetermined interval. According...Patent & Trademark Office: "A random prime number is generated within a predetermined...for all subsequent iterations of the prime number generating algorithm. To generate a...

RESEARCHERS DISCOVER LARGEST PRIME NUMBER.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  January 4, 2006 ;     136 words ......university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said Tuesday. The team at...programming 700 computers years ago. A prime number is a positive number divisible by only...power minus 1, in which p also is a prime number. The discovery is affiliated with the...

Cal Poly chemistry alumnus finds largest prime number

University Wire;  January 18, 2006 ;     382 words ......primality. After nine years, another prime number is added to the gang of unpredictable...integers. The new hooligan on the prime number line is 2 to the 30402457-1...discovered the largest Mersenne prime number. It is not as unruly as its fellow...

Missouri researchers discover world's largest prime number

AP Worldstream;  January 4, 2006 ;     164 words ......university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said. The team at Central...programming 700 computers years ago. A prime number is a positive number divisible by only...power minus 1, in which "p" also is a prime number. "We're super excited," Boone, a ...

Huge prime number found

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  September 28, 2008 ;     234 words ......UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes...power of "P" minus one. P is itself a prime number. For the new prime, P is 43,112,609...rights on the Internet and set up the prime number prize to promote cooperative computing...

Math whizzes find prime number with 13 million digits

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 28, 2008 ;     228 words ...Math whizzes find prime number with 13 million digits THE ASSOCIATED...have discovered a 13-million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes...of "P" minus one. P is itself a prime number. For the new prime, P is 43,112...

Student Finds Largest Known Prime Number

AP Online;  December 11, 2003 ;     468 words ......used to discover the worlds highest prime number. Shafer ran a Dell Dimension PC with...years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University...larger than the previous largest known prime number. Shafer, 26, helped find the number...

Largest prime number discovered

New Straits Times;  June 7, 2004 ;     130 words ...New Straits Times 06-07-2004 Largest prime number discovered Edition: Computimes; 2* Section: Outlook Education THE largest prime number yet found has been discovered by a mathematics enthusiast using his desktop computer. The monstrous number...