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• Derrick Henry Lehmer
  ...stencils. In the days before computers [[Factorization|factorising]] large numbers was a laborious task and many methods had been tried to make it easier. [[F ...ciently influential that the terms in this sequence are now called 'Lehmer Numbers'. He also clarified and extended Lucas' use of the Fermat congruence in pri
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• Megaprime
  ...are infinitely primes. In fact, since there are only finitely many natural numbers with less than {{Num|1000000}} digits, "nearly all" primes are megaprimes.
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• Gigaprime
  ...are infinitely primes. In fact, since there are only finitely many natural numbers with less than {{Num|1000000000}} digits, "nearly all" primes are gigaprime
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• Cunningham project
  ...the supply of numbers to be factored is low, the project starts factoring numbers with higher exponents, tracking the advances in factorization algorithms an For Mersenne numbers of the form <math>2^n-1</math>, even this trivial factor is not possible fo
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• 2 Minus Tables
  ==Factorizations Of Cunningham Numbers C^-(2,n) = 2ⁿ - 1==
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• Lucas-Lehmer test
  ...an [[Édouard Lucas]] (1842 - 91) developed an entirely new way of proving numbers prime without attempting to find all of their factors. Instead, he showed t ...ger number, the Lucas-Lehmer number, is calculated as one in a sequence of numbers where each number is the previous number squared, minus 2. So that where S<
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• Édouard Lucas
  ...] is named after him. He devised a new method for testing the primality of numbers that did not require finding all of their factors. In 1930, [[Derrick Henry
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• Edson Smith
  ...e people, sort of a passion. There's really no guarantee that any of these numbers exist. We don't know they're there until we find them. So it's exciting to
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• Digit
  ...r "7") used in numerals (combinations of symbols, e.g. "37"), to represent numbers, ([[integer]]s or [[real number]]s) in positional numeral systems. The name
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• Decimal
  ...d the radix point) that is sometimes used to separate the positions of the numbers in this system. This is the common every-day numbering system that people u ...han ten distinct values (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) to represent any numbers, no matter how large. These digits are often used with a decimal separator
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• Base
  ...number of different [[digit]]s that a system of counting uses to represent numbers. For example, the most commonly used base today is the decimal system. Beca ==Numbers in different bases==
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• Whole number
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• Integer
  ...fer only to the positive integers (with or without zero). Like the natural numbers, the integers form a countably infinite set. ...ative natural numbers, and, importantly, zero, '''Z''' (unlike the natural numbers) is also closed under [[subtraction]]. '''Z''' is not closed under the oper
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• Mathematics
  :*[[Arithmetic]] - The study of whole numbers and fractions. ...Algebra]] - The use of abstract symbols to represent mathematical objects (numbers, lines, matrices, transformations), and the study of the rules for combinin
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• Arithmetic
  ...[subtraction]], [[multiplication]] and [[division]] with smaller values of numbers.
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• Addition
  In [[mathematics]]: to sum 2 numbers. It is normally symbolized by the plus sign '+'.
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• Multiplication
  ...sult of a multiplication is called the product of a and b, and each of the numbers is called a [[factor]] of the product ab. The result of multiplying no numbers (empty product) is always 1 (the multiplicative identity, see below). The m
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• Factorial number
  ...r a number, it represents multiplying a number by all [[whole number|whole numbers]] smaller than it.
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• Factor
  A '''factor''' is one of the numbers or expressions that make up another number by [[multiplication]]. Let a and
  576 bytes (107 words) - 19:03, 5 February 2019
• Subtraction
  ...n for finding the difference between two numbers. The special names of the numbers in a subtraction expression are, minuend &minus; subtrahend = difference. T
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