Monday, April 30, 2018

Happy Birthday to Gauss, Father of the First Predictive Algorithm

Today, April 30th, we celebrate the birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss, often called the “Prince of Mathematicians.”

There are some fun details about his life and work available via the Google doodle page:

Image source: Google Doodle of the Day

The Quartz site also has an excellent article: https://qz.com/1265493/carl-friedrich-gauss-celebrating-the-father-of-the-predictive-algorithm

Thursday, January 4, 2018

New Largest Prime - 23,249,425 Digits!

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2^77,232,917 - 1, having 23,249,425 digits. The number, called M77232917, is the 50th "Mersenne prime" to be discovered. https://www.mersenne.org/primes/press/M77232917.html