Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 For you mathematical geeks: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/science/new-biggest-prime-number-mersenne-primes.html?_r=0
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 My wife, a retired Algebra Teacher, will be thrilled. Me? I think I'll just mind my denominator.
Noz Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 I don't know how I have survived to this point not knowing that?
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 We accept some thing like this, but still check to see if a "Wet Paint" sign is true.
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Large prime numbers are important in cryptography. In the article: thus number is so large that it has no practical use. Currently.
Irish Tom Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 This information may someday help scientists develop time travel, warp drive and teletransportation. In the meantime, I'm with Presidio, make mine medium rare.
Ramblin Gambler Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 I must be the only person on the internet who can't read NYT articles. People are always linking them and all I get is a login page. I think the NYT must have banned me somehow.
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 I thought it was whatever the Fed says.
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 And I am still struggling with 2 +2 = 5.
Krazy Kajun Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 And I am still struggling with 2 +2 = 5. BMC, you'll find a complete explanation of how that w*rks in the new Democratic Balanced Budget Handbook!! Kajun
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 BMC, you'll find a complete explanation of how that w*rks in the new Democratic Balanced Budget Handbook!! Kajun Yeahbut, they use bigger numbers and none of them are prime.
Ramblin Gambler Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 And I am still struggling with 2 +2 = 5. My daughter is taking a class right now (in college) called Math for Liberal Arts. I'm pretty sure they are teaching her 20 ways to figure out that 2+2=5
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Well, at least 1/2 of 1/2 is still a half.
Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Thanks from this elderly former Marine Corps cryptanalyst!
J-BAR #18287 Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Wow! The Kansas City Royals win the World Series and now a Mizzourah bushwhackin' computer nails the biggest prime number! We're on a roll, y'all.
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 So..........what's so new about it? It's always been there? Hasn't it? Duh?
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 24, 2016 Author Posted January 24, 2016 So..........what's so new about it? It's always been there? Hasn't it? Duh? Well, isn't that true of any new discovery??? Duh??
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