Sunday, 31 August 2008

Searching for primes

One aspect of mathematics in which computers are essential is finding large prime numbers.

It's two years since the last one - and we wait for confirmation that the 45th Mersenne prime (one less than a power of 2) has been found.

See The Register, at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/45th_mersenne_prime_discovered_maybe/

Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Other peoples' blogs

Ian Yorston's blog is worth reading - set up a reader such as the Google reader.
So is David Smith's blog.

Both are writing about net neutrality at the moment.