Prime numbers are discovered, as they exist as part of number theory. As of April 2011, the largest known Prime number is 243,112,609 − 1. This number was discovered in 2008 by Edson Smith, a systems administrator at UCLA.
prime numbers are invented by srinivasan ramanujan, an Indian mathematician.
Eratosthenes
Nobody invented them - they are a characteristic of the set of numbers.
Nobody invented them. They are simply numbers, prime or composite, such that they have no factor in common other than 1.
prime rib was not invented. it is a meat
On Jan. 25, 2013, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits.
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galileo
Nobody invented them, they are just names for numbers. A prime number has only 2 factors which are 1 and itself. Composite numbers are everything else except 1 and 0. 1 and 0 are neither prime, nor composite.
On Jan. 25, 2013, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits.
it looks like a 100 square grid with 1 to 100 and you highlight all the prime numbers
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