The numbers game
Posted on September 29, 2008
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In an astounding discovery that has made everyone at this blog make us wonder what exactly we have been doing with our lives, a group of mathmeticians at UCLA are going to be awarded $100,000 for discovering a number. That’s right, a number. We all know numbers right? Everyone remembers those things that Ernie told us today’s Sesame Street was brought to us by.
Well now UCLA has discovered a new 13 million-digit prime number. That’s right folks, simply by running a prime number program on your latest edition of Windows, you too can be the next one eligible for $100,000 simply by finding a number … God bless America.
Written by Bryan Schools
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Splitting hairs, I know, but the number had 13 *million* digits.
When Sesame Street starts seeking sponsorships from numbers that big, the animals have won.