Hey! that line in the metro got me on the rant too! I am glad it wasn't just me then!
dave IMCA #0092 Sec.BIMS. www.bimsociety.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:00 PM Subject: Prime Digest, Vol 51, Issue 1 > Send Prime mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Prime digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: UK Press report (Ian Halliday) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:42:57 +0100 > From: "Ian Halliday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Prime] UK Press report > To: "The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search list" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 > > > End of Prime Digest, Vol 51, Issue 1 > ************************************ _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
