(Phys.org) —Two math and physics researchers from the University's of Barcelona and Madrid respectively have developed an algorithm to count prime numbers using a quantum computer. José Latorre ...

One of the most common encryption schemes, the RSA algorithm, is based on prime numbers. It uses a “public key,” information that is publicly available, and a “private key,” something that ...

A million-dollar puzzle relating to prime numbers could be tackled using only ... has devised the first quantum algorithm to count primes. Quantum computers should be faster than ordinary ones ...

A 300-billion-digit number is the biggest known pseudoprime, a number which looks like a prime but isn’t ... and colleague Steven Hayman created an algorithm that looks at a list of numbers ...