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A 14-year-old wins award for program that calculates antiprime numbers

2021-11-03 00:00:00

Congratulations to Akilan Sankaran (14) of Albuquerque, New Mexico for winning the Samueli Foundation Prize in Broadcom's Masters competition for middle school students. Sankaran won the $25,000 prize for writing a computer program that calculates antiprime numbers.

An antiprime has more divisors than any number smaller than itself. For example, 24 has 8 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24). Every number smaller than 24 has has fewer than 8 divisors.

Plato's favorite number was an antiprime (also called a highly composite number): 5040, which has 60 divisors.

Antiprimes come in handy for all sorts of applications, as mathematician James Grimes describes in this Numberphile video.

From Popular Mechanics:
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