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Re: Largest Known Prime Number Discovered
Posted:
Feb 16, 2013 7:26 PM
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If you object to bad math jokes (are there any
good ones?), there's the old proofs that all odd
numbers greater than 2 are prime;
Physicist: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13,
The 9? It is
crucial in science to exclude such outliers as measuring error.
Mathematician: 3, 5, 7,
And just finish the proof by induction.
Engineer (middle school math teacher?): 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,
Wayne
At 05:37 AM 2/16/2013, GS Chandy wrote:
>Joe Niederberger posted Feb 15, 2013 9:37 PM:
> > G S Chandy says:
> > > Could you possibly guide me to a proof of Th. 2?
> >
> > It was just Wayne's joke, unfortunately loses its
> > punch if if needs explained.
> >
>Thanks, Joe. I feel adequately
>chastened. Indeed, it has lost punch. Unless
>it was a poor joke to begin with. Sorry about that, Wayne.
>
>Wayne: :) :) Trust you're happy now?
>
> >However, at any point in
> > time you can just look up whatever the largest
> > "known" prime is at the moment. It is usually
> > Mersenne (2**p - 1), and may be for a long time to
> > come.
> >
>It will be indeed, since we have got to 47
>million digits - the GIMPS project itself would
>most likely take some time to get to the next
>one (whether it be Mersenne or anything else).
>
>GSC
> > Cheers,
> > Joe N
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