***Sunday Geek Update!***
LOS ANGELES - Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize!
The three mathematicians responsible for the discovery,are now engaged in a bitter dispute over how to equally divide the prize money..
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Now that is one serious group of nerds.
Sage- Oddly enough,they found this new prime number while searching for a new prime interest rate.
That is sooooo nerdy.
And you'd think with them working on this problem for so long, that they would have sat down for a few minutes and decided how the prize money would be divided up if they won.
That's the truly nerdy part. :)
MHP- I'll tell you how big a nerd I am.
These guys have me thinking all day about the practical applications for such a number.
The 'bitter dispute' part is my own nerdy attempt at irony. ;)
I love nerds.
I like the nerdy irony!
mom- That's 'cause you're a livin' doll mom. :)
Lost- It cracked me up!...
i didn't get to where i am today by trusting 3 mathematicians.
but it's gonna take me a while to verify their number.
Stevenerdy read the article to me and then said...Finally
I think they should celebrate with a pi eating contest.
Get it? Pi?? It's a math joke, people!!!
numbers? we don't need no stink'n numbers
I know how to divide it between the three of them Sling... its $33,333.333 etc etc for each...I have a CALCULATOR!!! Duh!
Billy P.- I'm up to 6,827,493 digits..I need more coffee.
Rosie- Now he can relax,and get back to work on that perpetual motion machine!
Mighty D.- Mathematician's Pi r squared,..did you know that?
..sorry,that's all I got.
Thanks for stoppin' by buddy! :)
Yellerdawg G.- It's naysayers like you that that would have us go back to the days of 9 million digits! :P
middle child- What about the extra $.001 huh?...HUH??...I thought so.
Mighty D made me chuckle. It was an odd chuckle, though even in tone and definitely prime for merriment.
kimberly ann- I just love all this mathematical merriment!..It's a real geekfest. :)
Now there's three guys with way too much time on their hands. If it took them a year to find the number, and they divided the money equally, that's not even minimum wage in California, is it?
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