Monday, September 29, 2008

243,112,609 - 1

The 46th known Mersenne prime, found at UCLA. If you carry out the arithmetic indicated in this post's title, you can see the number in all its 13 million digit glory.

Practical applications for the discovery have yet to be described, although some comedy writers are believed to be hard at work trying to relate it to a certain well-known blog.

(h/t: Michael O'Hare)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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UCLA, Add, Add, Add!

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