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Mathematicians discover a completely new way to find prime numbers

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Primes are whole numbers that are greater than 1 and are divisible by only 1 and themselves.

The largest known prime number, 2136279841 1 , is 41,024,320 digits long.

It's difficult to determine how prime numbers are distributed within larger sets of numbers.

A new approach to finding prime numbers uses a notion called integer partitions.

"It's almost like our work gives you infinitely many new definitions for prime," Ono says.

The team's findings could lead to many new discoveries, researchers say.

There remains a glut of open questions about prime numbers, many of which are long-standing.

" Ken Ono is one of the most exciting mathematicians around today ," Andrews says.

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