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The basic building blocks of the whole numbers remain mysterious.

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Before taking part in the quiz make sure you have a pencil or pen and a piece of paper ready for writing down your answers - better still, print off our answer sheet below. Use your mental maths ...

The median score for college-bound seniors on the math section of the SAT in 2011 is about 510 out of 800. So right there is proof that there are lots of unsolved math problems. The great 19th-century ...