Poster for M50?

[a1call]

Why not print it on a wide scroll?

[GP2]

I heard that Jack Torrance is creating an artisanal poster of M50 in hexadecimal. The Shakespeare Monkey company will publish copies, eventually.

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by GP2

I heard that Jack Torrance is creating an artisanal poster of M50 in hexadecimal. The Shakespeare Monkey company will publish copies, eventually.

Isn't that just hundreds of thousands of F's and a 5?

[xilman]

Originally Posted by ATH

It just needs to be written in atoms 1nm x 1nm :-)

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/g...science_6a.jpg

Why that big?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10262

[bsquared]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Isn't that just hundreds of thousands of F's and a 5?

A 5, followed by tens of millions of F's. The expansion would only be about 20% shorter than decimal (and quite a bit less interesting!)

[Nick]

Originally Posted by xilman

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10262

Fascinating!

[a1call]

I wonder if, for such a large number a factorial base with unlimited base number can be more compact. My guess is, not.

http://planetmath.org/factorialbase

ETA As long as the digits will be represented in decimal expansions.

[Uncwilly]

If anyone has an old poster of one of the primes, would you kindly take a photo and post it here? I would like to share it with my printer. Currently 1.5 point font is being recommended. The banner would be 120" x 50" at that scale.
At 1 point it would be 120" x 24", but "is a bit rough and has to be looked at with a dot glass around 10x mag".
Still talking about material, with regard to price.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

If anyone has an old poster of one of the primes, would you kindly take a photo and post it here? I would like to share it with my printer. Currently 1.5 point font is being recommended. The banner would be 120" x 50" at that scale.
At 1 point it would be 120" x 24", but "is a bit rough and has to be looked at with a dot glass around 10x mag".
Still talking about material, with regard to price.

ISTR posting some pics of my M(6972593) poster hereabouts in context of a similar discussion a few years ago, but fellow readers will have to help dig the post out due to the forum's nigh-useless search functionality. Poster is in storage and any original copies of the image files would be on the now-dead HD of my old macbook, so digging out the post in question is the best way to go here.

[only_human]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

ISTR posting some pics of my M(6972593) poster hereabouts in context of a similar discussion a few years ago, but fellow readers will have to help dig the post out due to the forum's nigh-useless search functionality. Poster is in storage and any original copies of the image files would be on the now-dead HD of my old macbook, so digging out the post in question is the best way to go here.

http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthr...148#post391148

Originally Posted by ewmayer

OK, here a couple of far-from-professional-quality photos of the M6972593 poster, vintage 1999, from which we can derive the font size despite the crappy quality.

[1] Full-poster shot. The yellow ruler (it's actually a level) is 15.5" long, and the number-printout section (gray rectangle) is 24" wide x 36" high.

[2] Close-up of text section viewed through reading magnifier. The text here runs from top to bottom, because the text height is unifrom, roughly 3x that of the width, which together with the whitespace between rows makes it much easier to measure that than it is the width. The ruler at bottom shows that between inch 2 and 3 we have exactly 24 rows of text.

36 inches high x 24 rows/inch = 864 rows. Since M6972593 has 2098960 decimal digits, that translates to an average of 2430 characters per row, or 100 chars/inch, within the accuracy of my measurements. (Thus the rows are in fact roughly 4x as tall as the average char width, but there is proportionally more whitespace between rows than between chars-in-same-row (which nearly abut), so the char height sans whitespace is somewhere betwee 3-4x the char width. I honestly can't determine whether it's a fixed-width font (each char has same horizontal width) or not.

I hope this is enough for you to go on!

http://www.mersenneforum.org/attachm...0&d=1419823731
http://www.mersenneforum.org/attachm...1&d=1419823731

[axn]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Isn't that just hundreds of thousands of F's and a 5?

Originally Posted by bsquared

A 5, followed by tens of millions of F's. The expansion would only be about 20% shorter than decimal (and quite a bit less interesting!)

5?! 101 binary? Please surrender your geek cards.