“Researchers” at a college have found the biggest prime number – it has over nine million digits in it. I know there are some algorithms and a lot of computing power going into this, and there is a $100k prize for the first prime number over 10 million digits, but really – did the researchers do a whole lot besides wait for the computer to tell them the answer?
Category Archives: Count ‘Em
100,000
Miles turned on my car yesterday. For people with physical odometers on their cars, do they bother to put numbers past 3 on that little wheel? I’ve never seen a car with 400k on it.
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Work days this week. (My company takes Friday off.)
Can it be Thanksgiving every week?
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The number of stairs that I walk down everyday leaving work. Were the additional 7 stairs of space really necessary for the execs on the first floor to have airy high-ceilinged offices? Because walking down an odd number of stairs drives me crazy every time I do it.
No, I don’t walk up the stairs.
