Thursday, January 05, 2006

Well at Least We're Sexier than Them

And I thought economists were geeks.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/04/largest.prime.number.ap/index.html

What possible practical application does this have?

1 comment:

Frank said...

Same practical application as a diamond ring really.

It's all got to do with cryptography and weird mathematical stuff

http://www.mersenne.org/faq.htm#what