A prime number is a number that is only divisible by one and itself, which is essentially saying that it has no divisor. That takes half of all possible numbers off the table right away (the evens), along with all multiples of three, four, five, and so on.

Imagine a horizontal line. The very left is marked one thousand and the very right is marked one billion. On this line, where would you add a marker to represent one million? If you said somewhere in the middle, you answered the same as the roughly 50 ...

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The winning numbers in Friday's drawing of the "West Virginia Daily 4" game were: 2, 4, 7, 9 (two, four, seven, nine)

From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer

It’s been more than three months since anyone has won the Powerball jackpot, leading to Wednesday night’s grand prize being the seventh largest in the game’s history. The estimated jackpot for the Dec. 10 drawing is worth $930 million with a cash option of $429 million.

Wisconsin saw its unemployment rate remain at 3.1% in September, according to data released Wednesday afternoon that was delayed due to the shutdown of the federal