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Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

7 August 2019

Discovering giant prime numbers involves laborious trial and error, and they are of little use when they are found. For certain devotees, that's beside the point

Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

28 February 2018

Quantum computers will smash our best encryption. To make everything from online chats to government intelligence safe, we need maths no machine could solve

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Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

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