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The Prime Number Maze

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Visit this site: http://www.csm.astate.edu/~wpaulsen/primemaze/pmaze.html
Author:William Paulsen; Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AK
Description: Navigate mazes of binary numbers determined by the distribution of the prime numbers. Try mazes at Beginner (binary notations and prime numbers), Intermediate (500 rooms), Advanced (5000 rooms), Super Advanced (6 times larger than the advanced), or Ultimate (the largest prime maze allowed in Javascript. Can it be done?) levels, changing one binary digit at a time to form a new prime number, searching for a Mersenne prime. Also read about related problems, both solved and unsolved, and more games by Dr. Paulsen.
Levels: High School (9-12), College, Research
Languages: English
Resource Types: Games, Web Interactive/Java
Math Topics: Prime Numbers, Number Theory

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