The article in Metro's print edition was even more offensive. It contained the following:
(A Mersenne number is a positive integer that is one less than a power of two. Got that? Us neither) And that ruined the whole of my Monday. Ian 2008/9/30 Jason Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > -- Ian W Halliday, BA Hons, SA Fin, MIMIS, ATMG, CL +44 772 546 2965 (GMT+1) _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
