Discover partitioning Find out how to partition numbers using the part-part-whole model.

Partition numbers grow so fast that mathematicians have a hard time predicting them. “The number 10 has 42 partitions, but with 100 you have 190,569,292 partitions.

Mathematicians are unveiling new theories that answer famous old questions about partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting. They have devised the first finite formula to calculate the ...