no crime in the wasteland

"The clouds thicken over the cloister and night gradually darkens the ledger stones bearing the moral virtues attributed to the dead. If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page, I should write: ‘I recognize one duty, and that is to love.’ And, as far as everything else is concerned, I say no. I say no with all my strength. The ledger stones tell me that this is useless, that life is ‘col sol levante, col sol cadente’. But, I cannot see that my revolt loses by being useless, and I can feel what it gains."

jtotheizzoe:

The world’s largest known prime number, converted to RGB pixels. Dr. Curtis Cooper recently found a >17 million digit prime number, 2^57,885,161-1, setting a world record. These super-large primes are known as Mersenne primes, after the French mathematician who studied them centuries ago.

The raw digits containing 0-9 were split to six-number chunks, and then converted into the RGB color scale by pbump on Flickr. Here it is much, much bigger. It’s almost a perfect representation of noise.

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@3 months ago with 459 notes
#so this is nifty as a concept #but #and correct me if i'm wrong here #but wouldn't most prime numbers come out as a representation of noise? #i mean if they can't be divided by anything then no chunk (of any size) is going to resemble any other chunk #if they're even then they're going to be split into two chunks #(and obviously they're not) #and at this size i presume we're looking at pretty fucking large divisors #so for instance the non-prime odd number directly before this is going to be a large collection of identical chunks y/n?