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Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical significance"
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#12They also appear to claim that the newly discovered prime is "2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times". It's been a while since I studied math, but I'm pretty sure that's not prime.
It is true that 2 multiplied by it's self 57,885,161 times is not prime. However, if you subtract 1 from that the result is prime.
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#13This is a REALLY bad headline. That pull quote does not exist ANYWHERE in the article.
As much as I dislike Fox "news", this headline feels like complete BS.
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#14"Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance. Yet the oddities have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians." This article really highlights the need for better science journalism. Not to mention several paragraphs are plagiarized directly from this other article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23138-new-17milliondig... I can only guess, th…
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Re: Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical significance"
#15Misquote in title. Actual quote reads:
"Though there is little mathematical value to finding a single new prime"
Which to me is a perfectly reasonable sentence.
Edit: Doh sorry, everyone is right later in the article it says a stupid
Re: Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical significance"
#16Misquote in title. Actual quote reads: "Though there is little mathematical value to finding a single new prime" Which to me is a perfectly reasonable sentence. Edit: Doh sorry, everyone is right later in the article it says a stupid
It says also says later: "Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/05/worlds-largest-pri...
Re: Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical significance"
#17Misquote in title. Actual quote reads: "Though there is little mathematical value to finding a single new prime" Which to me is a perfectly reasonable sentence. Edit: Doh sorry, everyone is right later in the article it says a stupid
Nope. If you read two paragraphs further:
>Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance. Yet the oddities have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians.
Admittedly, getting through a full Fox News article is no fun.
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#18I'm not a big fan of Fox news (or any mainstream media for that matter) but in their defense, they basically reprinted the article from New Scientist. They even linked to the original article in their story.
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#19Misquote in title. Actual quote reads: "Though there is little mathematical value to finding a single new prime" Which to me is a perfectly reasonable sentence. Edit: Doh sorry, everyone is right later in the article it says a stupid
Later quote from the article reads:
"Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance. Yet the oddities have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians."
Re: Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical significance"
#20They also appear to claim that the newly discovered prime is "2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times". It's been a while since I studied math, but I'm pretty sure that's not prime.
He just phrased it unclear. He should have written it like that: >2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times (written mathematically as 2^57,885,161) - 1
They get it wrong in the image tagline too.
"A small portion of the 17 million digits in the number 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times -- the first Mersenne prime discovered in four years. (FoxNews.com)"