(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 ...

Don't know if you've heard, but there's a new largest known prime number in town. On 26 December, mathematicians scored a late Christmas present when a computer owned by a 51-year-old engineer in ...

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 ...