Humans have been fascinated by prime numbers for thousands of years — from ancient bone carvings to today’s high-tech computer searches.

The quest for ever-larger primes continues but now it includes algorithms and prize money.

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Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.

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