Compiling Java code to WebAssembly is an efficient way to get it running in a web browser, and you get a serious performance boost. Let's check it out. WebAssembly, or Wasm, provides a generalized, ...

Prime numbers are tricky things. We learn in school that they’re numbers with no factors other than 1 and themselves, and that mathematicians have known for thousands of years that an infinite number ...

THREE computer scientists have shocked the mathematics community by finding a solution to the centuries-old problem of how to tell if a number is prime. The proof is striking in its simplicity, and ...