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MoMath in New York brings prime numbers to a prime new location
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Interactive exhibit Prime Properties, which shows the prime factors of integers from 1 to 100, at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York.
PHOTO: EMON HASSAN/NYTIMES
Kenneth Chang
NEW YORK – A museum on East 26th Street in Manhattan moves seven blocks south and 1½ blocks west into a former home improvement store, doubling the space of its previous site. What happens next?
Unlike a word problem in an algebra textbook, there is no straightforward answer to calculate.
