Archive for the ‘Mathematics’ Category

The New Largest Prime Number Has Over 7 Million Digits

Thursday, June 10th, 2004

On May 15th, the discovery of a “new” Mersenne Prime number was announced by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project (found via Slashdot)

A while ago, I posted about how you could “help solve major science problems while your computer’s idling“. If you want to join the hunt for larger and larger Mersenne Prime numbers, you can download a program from mersenne.org to help in the search. To find out how Mersenne Primes differ from ordinary primes, check out the GIMPS FAQ.

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Physics and Math Applets

Thursday, February 5th, 2004

Check out these applets that were created to help with the visualization of various concepts in math and physics (written by Paul Falstad, a software developer). Although not an applet, I especially like the pictures he took of objects around the house with a thermal camera.

[Note: My husband, who happens to be a physicist, found the link to this site on geekpress.com. ]

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