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Prime numbers become increasingly rare, yet there are infinitely many of them.
The gaps between prime numbers generally get larger as numbers get bigger, but we can always find more primes. This was proven by Euclid over 2,000 years ago, and it remains one of the most elegant proofs in mathematics. The distribution of primes continues to puzzle mathematicians.
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The sum of numbers 1 to 100 took young Carl Friedrich Gauss only seconds to calculate.
When Gauss was in elementary school, his teacher asked the class to add all numbers from 1 to...
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Every possible combination of DNA can be written as a number with 4 billion digits.
The human genome contains approximately 3 billion base pairs, each represented by one of four letters (A, T,...
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Every positive integer is the sum of four square numbers.
Lagrange's Four-Square Theorem states that every natural number can be represented as the sum of at most four...