Boing Boing » prime numbers http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:00:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The world's largest prime number — visualized http://boingboing.net/2013/02/18/the-worlds-largest-prime-num.html http://boingboing.net/2013/02/18/the-worlds-largest-prime-num.html#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:25:50 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=213798 Philip Bump took the recently discovered 17-million-digit prime number and, six digits at a time, converted it into RGB colors. This is the result.]]>

Philip Bump took the recently discovered 17-million-digit prime number and, six digits at a time, converted it into RGB colors. This is the result.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/18/the-worlds-largest-prime-num.html/feed 51 Another prime number down, infinity to go http://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/another-prime-number-down-inf.html http://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/another-prime-number-down-inf.html#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:45:50 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=212319 There are 17 million digits in the largest prime number we know of, so far. Its discovery is part of an ongoing distributed computing project aimed at exposing the existence of ever larger prime numbers, largely because prime numbers are there — flagrantly going around, only being divisible by themselves and the number 1.]]> There are 17 million digits in the largest prime number we know of, so far. Its discovery is part of an ongoing distributed computing project aimed at exposing the existence of ever larger prime numbers, largely because prime numbers are there — flagrantly going around, only being divisible by themselves and the number 1. We'll show them, won't we? The Electronic Frontier Foundation foundation, for instance, is currently offering a $150,000 bounty for the first folks to bring in a 100-million-digit prime. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/another-prime-number-down-inf.html/feed 14 The music of the primes http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:20:07 +0000 Rob Beschizza http://boingboing.net/?p=185773 Little-scale offers music procedurally-generated from prime numbers. A "full version", available for download, is 26 hours long. [Little-Scale]]]>
Little-scale offers music procedurally-generated from prime numbers. A "full version", available for download, is 26 hours long. [Little-Scale]]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html/feed 10