From today`s Telegraph, entitles `Number takes 3 weeks to write.`

`A number so large that it would take nearly three weeks to write down has been named the largest prime number ever discovered.

The number can be expressed as `two to the power of 13,466,917 minus one` and contains 4,053,946 digits. Prime numbers can be divided only one and themselves. The new prime number was discovred by Michael Cameron, a 20-year-old Canadian taking part in a mass computer project.

The project spent 13,000 years of computer time to find the new number.`

Errrrr......and the point is?!!!

All I can say is ` Michael Cameron - get a life!`.(:o)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Answers

Absolutely Pointless?

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

I wonder who the first journo will be to use this in relationship to our Lahndaan performances?? Myabe there is a point after all - tho I'd prefer three ;-)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

...... I had a funny feeling it might be that particular one! ;o{]

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Useful for encryption purposes.....the amusing bit is that the group of people who discovered it are called GIMPS :))

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Ahh Gav......that would be why it whizzed straight over my head then! (:o)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

ps. Love the fact that they are called GIMPS!

I have a new BBS definition to add to the list BTW:

GALAXIED - to be totally overwhelmed, intimidated, perplexed or befuddled by anything to do with technology. eg. When your computer crashes for no apparent reason, you could say ` Well I`m Galaxied if I know why that happened!`. (:o)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Well I`m off to do some number crunching of my own. How do you spend £500 on Christmas presents, and yet it only actually costs £250? Easy, half the price when you are telling your husband! (:o)

See ya later!!!!!! Ho! Ho! Ho!

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Galaxy
And, of course, he'll never twig. :-)) Devious ? Me ? Never. :-))

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

I`m back!(:o)

Pit Bill, I think he actually prefers not to know! (:o)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Hey Gal, what've you bought for your old man - can't think of a bliddy thing to get mine except a pile of CDs.

Any ideas from the rest of you about what to get for a 56 year old whose sole interests in life are football and reading the papers would be gratefully received. And the first bugger to say "a divorce" gets decked OK!

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Subscription to The Mag/When Saturday Comes/FourFourTwo maybe?

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Sexy underwear???

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Jacko, Pete is equally difficult to buy for. He`s only really interested in motorcycles. I guess it will be the usual clothes, books, booze etc. I usually buy him whatever is the latest liqueur/trendy tipple. Can`t even find anything interesting like that, and last year`s Absinth is still glowing green in the cocktail cabinet (alongside the previous year`s Aftershock)!

Screacher - don`t know about Jacko`s husband, but I do know that Pete would not look at his best in `sexy underwear`!(;o)

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

Could try cachaca as this year's absinthe, although caipirinhas are more of a summer thing I suppose.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

If sexy underwear's out of the question, what about a new piston ring? I'm told that the "Prince Albert" variety is the one for discerning men.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

Don`t you go giving my husband ideas like that! Next thing you know he will be expecting me to remove the barbed wire from the bottom of my ex WWII, army surplus, red flannel nightie! (;o)

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

Sounds like you have the same model as Mrs gus!

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

Hi Gus! Are you sure it isn`t the old Navy `repel all boarders` version?(;o)

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

No No I meant she has the same model, ME!

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

Oh well! My mistake! (:o) How are you anyway?

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

BTW Pete, this `cachaca`, what colour is it? I wouldn`t want it to clash with the Absinthe and the Aftershock! (:o)

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

The only thing it clashes with is your head, the next morning. ;-) Industrial strength sugar cane based spirit that sells for a few pence in Brazil, but tarted up over here ca. £20 a bottle.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

It's nice Gal....well caipirinhas are :)) pain in the arse to make with all that lime and crushed ice though....

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001

I`ll give it a try then, after all, it wouldn`t be Christmas if I didn`t have my nearest and dearest moping about the house like a bear with sore b@lls on Boxing Day! (;o) Assuming it`s reached the provinces, of course! Sainsburys perhaps? Or just a wine shop? (:o)

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001