You have most likely heard the term factor before. A factor is a number that goes into another. The factors of 10 for example are 1, 2, 5 and 10. Prime numbers are a special set of numbers that only ...
Narrator: Prime Numbers are numbers which can only be divided by themselves and 1. And Prime factors are the prime numbers which multiply together to make a number. It can take some time to work out ...
A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...