Boing Boing on MSN10h
"Demonic" 666 found in massive palindromic prime number
It's unusual for at least two reasons. First, it's a palindrome, so it reads the same backwards as forwards (not counting the ...
wusf5d
Amateur mathematician finds the new largest prime number
Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.