Tag: Number

Explainer: Number Representations in Computer Hardware

As Shakespeare would have it, "that which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." But in the world of computers, that way by which...

Mathematicians Outwit a Hidden Number ‘Conspiracy’

Intuition tells mathematicians that adding 2 to a number should completely change its multiplicative structure—meaning there should be no correlation between whether a number is prime (a multiplicative property) and whether the...
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