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Articles

Title	Author	Type	Date	Words
Math trek.		Brief article	Oct 11, 2008	39
Prime numbers.	de Mestre, Neville		Jun 22, 2008	1362
Problems section.	Eisenberg, Ted		Nov 1, 2006	2319
Problems with primes.	Melrose, Tim; Scott, Paul		Sep 22, 2005	2055
New largest prime discovered.		Brief Article	Mar 19, 2005	268
Uncovering a prime failure. (Mathematics).		Brief Article	May 31, 2003	287
Mathematicians mind the gap. (Prime Finding).	Klarreich, E.		Mar 29, 2003	568
Prime pursuit: constructing an efficient prime number detector.	Peterson, Ivars		Oct 26, 2002	1632
Searchers capture a champion megaprime. (Science News of the week).	Peterson, I.	Brief Article	Dec 15, 2001	358
Prime conjecture verified to new heights.	Peterson, I.	Brief Article	Aug 12, 2000	504
Owners of home computers join researchers in cracking problems and crunching data.	PETERSON, IVARS		Mar 4, 2000	1893
The scarcity of cluster primes.	I.P.	Brief Article	Feb 6, 1999	304
Calculating a record prime.	Peterson, Ivars	Brief Article	Feb 21, 1998	326
Zeroing in on an infinite number of primes.	Peterson, Ivars		Jan 3, 1998	709
Lucky choice turns up world-record prime.	Petersin, Ivars	Brief Article	Sep 13, 1997	409
Progressing to a set of consecutive primes.	Lipkin, Richard	Brief Article	Sep 9, 1995	476
Dubner's primes: searching for twin primes and other denizens of the number world.	Peterson, Ivars		Nov 20, 1993	981
Primality tests: an infinity of exceptions.	Peterson, Ivars		Sep 19, 1992	738
Striking pay dirt in prime-number terrain.	Peterson, Ivars		Apr 4, 1992	645
Fermat-number factors.			Jun 23, 1990	289
Computing a prime champion.			Sep 16, 1989	235
Priming for a lucky strike.	Peterson, I.		Feb 6, 1988	416
Prime time for supercomputers.	Peterson, Ivars		Sep 28, 1985	422
Uncommon factoring; new computing machines and new algorithms are speeding up the factoring of large numbers.	Peterson, Ivars		Mar 30, 1985	1742