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I am a university student, after all, and maths is one of the core parts of studying engineering. These days, I am having my mid-semester exams (which also counts for the relative drying up of posts), but I remembered one of my favourite mathematics discussion sites and thought some of my readers may like to [...]

There is an infinite number of prime numbers. Prime numbers are of interest to mathematics because of the very fact that they do not appear in particular pattern. There is an ongoing struggle to see if primes can be fitted a pattern, perhaps the largest prize in number theory.
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search has [...]