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World's largest prime number found!
Okay, it's a slow news day. I expect this thread to get 0 responses.
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Okay, it's a slow news day. I expect this thread to get 0 responses.
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What?The team at Central Missouri State University, led by associate dean Steven Boone and mathematics professor Curtis Cooper, found it in mid-December after programming 700 computers years ago.
What terrible wording."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Wow. So I guess it'll be the biggest until they find the next one. And so on and so forth ad infinitum, making the exercise a bit futile, no?"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James NapierComment
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No, it's important to understanding number theory to see if some theories or conjectures hold.
This has real world applications in fields such as cryptography."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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An IT-guy and he doesn't know what a computer year is.Originally posted by Asher
What?
What terrible wording.
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They didn't say computer years.
It says they "programmed 700 computers", and that it was done years ago.
Hence the poor wording.
And please do not insult me by calling me an IT-guy.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Yeah, I know. That sort of was the joke.
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Isn't calling him Asher insult enough?
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I didn't realize the number was lost."And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
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You can never have too many prime numbers.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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But you can have too little interest.
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The number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 — that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1.
Oooh, I have an idea! How about 2 to the M30402457 minus one! Let's put 1000 computers to work calculating that and waste a big ****ing pile o' time!"You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
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Um, no.Originally posted by Asher
No, it's important to understanding number theory to see if some theories or conjectures hold.
This has real world applications in fields such as cryptography.
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