In one of the most hilarious papers we have read this year, two scientists challenged some famous quantum factorization ...

A prime number is an integer that can’t be divided by any integer other than itself and 1. In school math class, you probably learned something called prime factorization, where you break a ...

The three smallest prime numbers are 2, 3 and 5. It's easy to find out if small numbers are prime—one simply needs to check what numbers can factor them.

All numbers can be broken down into their prime factors Quantum computers could one day threaten the safety of the internet by breaking encryption – and now they are a step closer. A quantum ...