Prime numbers have captivated mathematicians for centuries with their unpredictable and seemingly random distribution. In a groundbreaking preprint study, researchers devised a novel method that ...

Any number is the unique product of prime factors. Eratosthenes, who lived from -276 to -194, proposed a process that allows us to find all prime numbers less than a given natural number N.

The established research on this test method—as well as the distribution of prime numbers—assured them that they’d find a prime within a reasonable time frame.