Business Insider -
23 Feb 2013 03:05

Earlier this month a mathematician working with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, found the biggest prime number ever -- 17 million digits long -- 2 ^ 57,885,161 minus 1. The internet got super hyped up about this, and has been fiddling around with the number. Here's a new use for them: Flicker user pbump decided to turn the digits into art: I took the raw numeric data from the new, 17-million-digit prime, broke it into 6-digit chunks, converted that to RGB colors, and made an image. RBG...
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