largest known prime number discoverd

Consider…

slate.com/articles/health_an … hould.html

Now, just out of curiosity, in the context of “all there is”, how important is this? Why is it “incredibly exciting”?

Oh, and in the context of the lives that we live from day to day…any implications to note here?

And let me assure you that this seems rather far, far, far removed from dasein, conflicting goods and political economy.

Unless of course I’m wrong. :wink:

From the article it seems it has no use yet just potential for encryption. It is exciting for those involved in that. It could potentially protect your online wealth or keep you hidden from enemies. Frankly I would like to have a beer with the team that worked on this. Just to see what kind of personalities they have.

:laughing:

…sounds too much like something that I would do. :sunglasses:

Good point. There is practically nothing at all that some folks won’t get excited about — discovering a new beetle, for example, or inventing a new definition – so who am I to spoil it for them.

Still, you know me. If dasein and conflicting goods aren’t applicable [and I can’t imagine how they ever could be here] how really important can it be?

And what the hell did Marx know about prime numbers? :wink:

Just wait until they discover one that’s larger. It won’t be in OUR lifetimes, mind you; but I’m sure it’s somewhere down the road.

Or: Perhaps God Himself might deign to provide us with the largest prime number.

But don’t numbers just keep going for as long as you choose to count them? I could be wrong on this theory, but that does seem to be the case.

Hmm. When it comes to God, aren’t all bets off here? You know, if He does in fact exist. :-k

You would think so, but apparently all bets are still on, since God is refusing to gamble with those that try to renege.

The set of all primes is an infinite one and so the largest one just does not exist

And you know this for a fact…how?

In, for example, the manner in which mathematicians know for a fact what a prime number is?

I’m wondering more about how many times it took them to prove that the new prime number was actually a prime number. Those had to be exciting times, lol.

I believe myself to be God incarnate in the flesh, obviously, that’s how.

Well, that sounds like something only God would know…objectively. Like, for example, how reality itself came into existence in order that we can discuss prime numbers at all.

I wonder if there’s an Optimus Prime number.

…and so another exchange bites the dust at ILP.

The Kids.

They’ve taken over!! :wink:

It’s not that kids are getting smarter; it’s that adults are getting dumber. True story.

No, no, no…not kids.

The Kids.

The Kids are the intellectual equivalent of juvenile delinquents. They post dozens and dozens of times a day here hell bent on making a mockery of any and all actual substantive exchanges in or around the vicinity of, say, philosophy. And, sure, I can be one of them myself at times. But no way am I in their league. They are, after all, the ones that have stampeded the folks who once came to ILP in order to actually get away from the sort of clamorous drivel they spew.

And, indeed, more than one of them has claimed to be God.

Unless, of course, I’m wrong.

I actually respect you, for the moment. I don’t put much thought into things, but when you posted on my thread in the ranthouse, I realized a couple things about how you conduct yourself and that gave me a moments respect for you compared to others here. I’m pretty sure that at least one other person here has claimed to be God and certainly many other people in my life that I have encountered have claimed the same, but I don’t take them very seriously. Even if we are all God to some extent or another, there is a very big difference between that and being THE God that certain things talk about. And then again, there are many Gods in existence, not just in our own reality but scattered throughout the omniverse/omnireality. Perhaps there are retards even amongst the Godly ranks. It would stand to reason.

Sure, but God has only ever been a contraption that exists in our heads. The Kids on the other hand are very, very real.

Perhaps, or perhaps that contraption is no contraption and has long since been its own sentient entity that exists just as much as we do, though not in any physically manifest way that people would accept.