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Launched five years ago, the game surpassed three million tries on July 16—or, more to the point, it hit run 2,999,999—after a Hacker News post generated a surge of about 100,000 attempts. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Greek mathematician Euclid may very well have proved, circa 300 BCE, that there are infinitely many prime numbers. But it was the British mathematician @christianp who, more recently, devised the computer game, “Is this prime?” — PolitiTweet.org

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The aim of the game is to sort as many numbers as possible into “prime” or “not prime” in 60 seconds. The game’s algorithm—the “Miller-Rabin test,” which builds upon “Fermat’s little theorem"—is one of many clever primality-checking algorithms developed over the centuries. — PolitiTweet.org

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