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really high prime

🔗"Adam B. Silverman" <Adam.B.Silverman@...>

10/7/1996 9:51:10 AM
The New York Times Magazing from this weekend included the following blurb:

"PRIME TIME: Using a Cray computer, David Slowinski, an employee at Cray
research, recently discovered the world's largest known prime number...
The beast is 378,632 digits long, and Slowinski is struggling to fit it
onto an 11-by-17-inch wall poster. "You need a maginifying glass," he
says, "and some of the numebrs are on top of each other." Who will buy
this? "Number theory enthusiasts." Se, kids, you were right. Math
*can* be scary."

Is anyone interested in working out a Tonality Diamond with Slowinski's
Prime?

-Adam

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