Bengaluru: City-based KV Narayana, a retired professor with a PhD in number theory, dissected a few mathematical properties of New Year 2026. Year 2026 is a non-leap year with 365 days; it both begins ...

Imagine a number made up of a vast string of ones: 1111111…111. Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into the ...

Thousands of computers across the world are currently scouring the number line in a scavenger hunt for rare mathematical gems. Enthusiasts looking for larger and larger prime numbers, which are ...