[quote=only_human;143363]Geeze you guys know Slashdot a lot better than I do.
ps. "All your base are belong to us!"[/quote]

I joined gimps in 1999. I found it because of the slashdot story about the discovery of M38.

Slashdot isn't exactly the force it used to be. Getting a top spot on digg or somethingawful should really be our goal if we want to attract new prime hunters today.

On Friday night, some of the local Ottawa GIMPSers got together at [URL="http://www.pubitalia.ca/"]Pub Italia[/URL] for a celebration.

In the top frame: Teodora and Clayton (aka [B]argilo[/B])
Bottom frame: me, Serge, Chris

Anyone else have any GIMPS celebration photos?

We made the front page of the AMS website!

[url]http://www.ams.org/news/home-news.html[/url]

[quote]Anyone else have any GIMPS celebration photos?[/quote][COLOR=White].[/COLOR]

A new article is published today in Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail:
[url]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080922.wprime0923/BNStory/National/[/url]

With quotes from Scott, Edson, and a couple of math profs.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;143465][COLOR=White].[/COLOR][/QUOTE]

LOL. Is the pumpkin puking out the digits of the prime? :smile:

[quote=Jeff Gilchrist;143495]LOL. Is the pumpkin puking out the digits of the prime? :smile:[/quote]
Hold your mouse over it and read the filename. :wink:

[QUOTE=R.D. Silverman;142683]Also, these primes are quite interesting from a mathematical point of view.

Before revealing what makes these two so interesting, I will give others
a chance to suggest the reason.[/QUOTE]

Anyone? Or would you care to give a hint?

[QUOTE=Jeff Gilchrist;143495]LOL. Is the pumpkin puking out the digits of the prime? :smile:[/QUOTE]

No, it's puking out "random seeds".

BTW, any similarity between my name and the JPEG filename is strictly intentional.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;143569]No, it's puking out "random seeds".[/QUOTE]


Ohh... that is terrible...

The (in)famous Mersenne twister will do that to you.
The take-home lesson is "twist with moderation"!