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Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
There is a big difference between efforts to find the biggest "Mersenne Primes" as opposed to the biggest primes, the M primes take the particular form that an obsessed monk put forward centuries ago and are the easiest (but not very easy) to find.
Originally posted by earthtone
I don't understand why this number is significant? It's just a number. How does this discovery benefit human kind? I hate maths sorry.
Originally posted by RANT
Is anyone here an inspired looney math geek? Like the ones that mutter about God being a fractal? See symphonies in Crop Circles? Etc.
I want to hear your 'rantings'.
Unreal numbers, the order of chaos, etc. fascinate me.
Originally posted by Saucerat
WOW!!
Another mathling!
Yeah, I think fractals are awesome.
Ask anyone, I'm math obsessed.