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Old Apr 15, 2009 | 11:07 AM
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Default Prime Numbers

More than you want to know about it.
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Old Apr 15, 2009 | 11:32 AM
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Kind of reminds me of Googolplex
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Old Apr 15, 2009 | 12:04 PM
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nerds
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Old Apr 15, 2009 | 12:10 PM
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wow.
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Old Apr 15, 2009 | 01:10 PM
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check out fibonacci sequence. also cool.
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Old Apr 15, 2009 | 01:49 PM
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Mersenne primes are comparatively easy to generate; every time someone says that they've found the latest "largest" prime number, you can be sure that it's a Mersenne prime.
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Old Apr 15, 2009 | 09:40 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#..._and_literature
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