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- GIMPS Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 2^136279841 – 1 https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841 11 comments
- Why isn't 1 a prime number? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/why-isnt-1-a-prime-number/ 130 comments
- Regular Expression to Check For Prime Numbers -- /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/03/18/a-regular-expression-to-check-for-prime-numbers/ 333 comments programming
- Every odd number greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6656 129 comments math
- Why Isn't 1 a Prime Number? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/why-isnt-1-a-prime-number/ 187 comments math
- One of the greatest mysteries of Number Theory: If you have an integer "n", you can easily find the value of "n + 1". But if you know the prime factors of "n", finding the prime factors of "n + 1" takes far more time. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/173113/relationship-between-prime-factorizations-of-n-and-n1 18 comments math
- Is -1 considered a prime number? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6vvi8k/is_1_considered_a_prime_number/ 28 comments askscience
- Physicists Attack Math’s $1,000,000 Question: Physicists are attempting to map the distribution of the prime numbers to the energy levels of a particular quantum system. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170404-quantum-physicists-attack-the-riemann-hypothesis/ 40 comments math
- News18 on Twitter: "India's 18th Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's address to the nation. Yes you read that right. 18th Prime Minister! Because 18 is the new number 1; News18 Network is now India's number 1 news network https://twitter.com/cnnnews18/status/1008982720712564737?s=19 10 comments india
- Italian Deputy Prime Minister calls Macron "enemy number 1" [Article in Italian] https://www.huffingtonpost.it/2018/06/23/pilato-macron_a_23466276/?utm_hp_ref=it-homepage 12 comments europe
- If prime Nalbandian was playing today, would he be the number 1 ranked player in the world? https://lobandsmash.com/2022/07/24/prime-nalbandian-playing-today-number-1-ranked-player-world/ 2 comments tennis
- Wilt Chamberlain: I know basketball is a team game, and you've already made Michael number 1, but if you had to have Wilt against Michael, my prime and his prime, how much money would you be willing to bet? https://youtu.be/hCCrpLZfpH4?t=156 268 comments nba
- [Jalen Ramsey] A winning culture, a great city, prime time games, LA’s number 1 football team, etc etc.. sounds like the Rams should be a place superstars should want to play football lol 👀🤷🏾♂️ Blessings 🙏🏾 #YesImRecruiting lol I wanna win 🏆 https://twitter.com/jalenramsey/status/1396864373147136002?s=19 169 comments nfl
- Jon Stewart is the Thomas Jefferson of Our Time: This interview is old news. But it is new history. Has a comedian ever become the prime statesman of a nation at any other point in history? Stewart tackles America's number 1 problem: Fox News. http://www.buzzfeed.com/pajaroentertainmentltd/jon-stewart-is-the-thomas-jefferson-of-our-time-31ii 3 comments reddit.com
- On the Math with Bad Drawings blog: "Why Isn’t 1 a Prime Number?" https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/09/25/why-isnt-1-a-prime-number/ 13 comments math
- How is a prime number as big as 2^(74'207'281) − 1 found? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/77bhgv/how_is_a_prime_number_as_big_as_274207281_1_found/ 12 comments askscience
- I created a function that returns the number of factor pairs of an input (primes return "1"). Is there utility in this? Can it be improved or expanded upon? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28floor%28sqrt%28n%29%29+-+%28sum+ceiling%28%28n%2Fx%29-floor%28n%2Fx%29%29%2C+x%3D1%2C+x%3Dfloor%28sqrt%28n%29%29%29%29 33 comments math
- US President Donald Trump ahead of his India visit, tweets, "Great honor, I think? Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that “Donald J. Trump is Number 1 on Facebook. Number 2 is Prime Minister Modi of India.” Actually, I am going to India in two weeks. Looking forward to it!". https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1228512226606104576?s=19 10 comments india
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday vowed to stick to a plan to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees by Jan 1, even though a growing number of critics say the target is too large and could threaten security following the attacks in Paris. http://www.trust.org/item/20151117105919-yqpq4/?source=search 13 comments worldnews