The coverage from the Metro is less encouraging - apparently they expect their readership to find advanced mathematical concepts, like primes, a bit beyond them
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?13-million_digit_prime_number_discovered&in_article_id=328601&in_page_id=34 Jason The message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Peter Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> contains these words: > Today's Guardian newspaper has a report of the two latest discoveries: > Why 2 to the power of 43,112,609 - 1 = $100,000 for prime number hunters > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/29/maths > The print version even managed to print the exponent correctly as a > superscript (and without the "to the power of"), something that > newspapers often find difficult to do. > Peter Owen > Liverpool UK > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
