The Amazing Sierpinski Triangle.

The Sierpinski Triangle. A self similar fractal. Sierpinski Triangle Banner

There are few branches of maths as awe-inspiring as fractals. Fractals are those never ending patterns where a small part is representative of the whole. The deeper you delve into a fractal the more you realise that you have only just begun and have not even scratched the surface. One such fractal is the Sierpinski Triangle. Look at the animation […]

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World’s Largest Prime Number – New Record!

Largest Prime Number M74207281

Ever since the ancient greeks discovered that some numbers can’t be equally divided by anything other than 1 and themselves, the hunt for bigger and bigger prime numbers has been on. This has, over the millennia, transformed into one of the most bizarre mathematical dick measuring contests the world has ever seen. Most recently a bunch of geeks called GIMPS […]

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