They found what is known as the ninth Dedekind number ... we were able to reduce the number of terms to ‘only’ 5.5*10 18 —an enormous amount. By comparison, the number of grains of sand ...

A novel instance of a unique integer known as a Dedekind number has been found by mathematicians after decades of study, searching, and examination. According to a news release, making history ...

Making history with 42 digits, scientists at Paderborn University and KU Leuven have unlocked a decades-old mystery of mathematics with the so-called ninth Dedekind number. Experts worldwide have ...

Researchers have calculated the "ninth Dedekind number," which belongs to an exponentially ... submitted to the preprint server arXiv on April 5 and the second submitted to the same server on ...