Akilan Sankaran, a 14-year-old from Albuquerque, New Mexico, won the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize for his innovative computer program that enhances app performance. This award is part of the Broadcom MASTERS competition, which recognizes outstanding middle school students in science and engineering. The discussion highlights the concept of antiprime numbers, also known as highly composite numbers, which are integers with more divisors than any smaller positive integer.
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Akilan Sankaran, 14, is on his school's varsity track team and plays the piano, the flute and drums — and yet somehow he still found time to devise a computer program that could speed up some of your favorite apps.
That program won Akilan, who's from Albuquerque, N.M., the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, the top award in the Broadcom MASTERS, a highly competitive science and engineering competition for middle school students.
Astronuc said:What's an antiprime number, aka highly composite number?