Perfectly Scientific, Inc./Perfectly Scientific Press
 

I'm sorry if this has been discussed before (I did a search and didn't find any thread titles regarding this) but has PI, Inc gone out of business? Google indicates their site is "no longer in operation."

[QUOTE=Primeinator;365626]I'm sorry if this has been discussed before (I did a search and didn't find any thread titles regarding this) but has PI, Inc gone out of business? Google indicates their site is "no longer in operation."[/QUOTE]

I believe it was run by Richard Crandall, who died back in 2012.

[QUOTE=Primeinator;365626]Google indicates their site is "no longer in operation."[/QUOTE]Their websites say that.

FWIW they did indicate that they were "[URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=18437"]in transition[/URL]" about a year ago.
They did have a facebook post in April.:unsure:

[QUOTE=rogue;365633]I believe it was run by Richard Crandall, who died back in 2012.[/QUOTE]

I remember this happening... but what a bummer their transition did not go well.

[QUOTE=Primeinator;365648]I remember this happening... but what a bummer their transition did not go well.[/QUOTE]
They're the ones that made the Mersenne Prime "gray rectangle" posters, right?

[QUOTE=jasong;365664]They're the ones that made the Mersenne Prime "gray rectangle" posters, right?[/QUOTE]

Yep!

Perfectly Scientific Press now has a Facebook page ...
 

[url]https://www.facebook.com/perfscipress[/url]

I got an error message when trying to locate the server [url]http://www.psipress.com/[/url]
No idea if that's temporary or permanent.

I think that we should start looking into a banner printing service to print posters for the latest primes.

What height would you all suggest?
How much (in US$ for simplicity) would be considered fair (shipping excluded)?
How tiny of a font is too small?
Any other considerations? (a QR code to the discovery thread?)


I can try to find some price quotes. I have an in-law in the printing trade, they may be able to point me in the right direction for a good rate. Shipping, payment, and customs are an easy thing to deal with.

How about printing it on microfoche?

[URL]http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/articles/micfiche.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;390062]I think that we should start looking into a banner printing service to print posters for the latest primes.

What height would you all suggest?
How much (in US$ for simplicity) would be considered fair (shipping excluded)?
How tiny of a font is too small?[/QUOTE]

I dislike what PSI did with the multimillion-digit M-primes, shrinking the font to microscopic size. I suggested to REC on several occasions to fix the font and offer the posters in a scroll and/or multipanel format. That way the area of successive posters (length of scrolls, if one fixed the short dimension of these) would give a nice visual way of conveying the size of the ever-growing primes bestiary.

Would appreciate your asking your pro-printing in-law how much a scroll-form version of the current largest prime would cost, if printed in the same font as the earliest M-prime posters put out by PSI. I wonder if a "scrolling frame" is available for such a format.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;390069]Would appreciate your asking your pro-printing in-law how much a scroll-form version of the current largest prime would cost, if printed in the same font as the earliest M-prime posters put out by PSI.[/QUOTE]What is the minimum point size that you are looking for?

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;390064]How about printing it on microfoche?[/QUOTE]I know someone that had one of the slides mentioned in that article. He worked for NCR years ago.