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Numbers and letterboxes Brainteaser

by David Shaw, 11 July 2018 | 0 comments

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Tomas is putting a number on a letterbox. He puts on one digit. Then he adds another digit. Tomas looks at it and notices that it makes a number exactly five times the first digit.

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Catching a colossal prime News

by David Shaw, 1 March 2018 | 0 comments

Picture of numbers arranged in a disorganised pattern with some on their sides and some sight side up.

Late last year, Jonathan Pace’s computer found something special. Jonathan is an electrical engineer who also manages computers for charities, so he has a lot of computers, but this one was nothing out of the ordinary. Except for one thing: the computer was running software from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search

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