source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:51:10 -0700 Subject: really high prime From: "Adam B. Silverman" 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 Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:16 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04527; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:17:42 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04525 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA08746; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:17:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:17:09 -0700 Message-Id: <65961007170656/0005695065PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu