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Probably faster to just mail it.

I suggest a poster of the complete decimal representation of the largest known explicit prime number:

http://www.perfsci.com/souvenirs.htm

Perfectly Scientific, Inc. sells posters of these primes, printed explicitly (in provocative notation?). If printer technology allows, there will soon be one for this 10 million digit beast too.

They're great if you're looking to test that macro lens on your digital SLR, or if you're just curious what 8 square feet of 1pt font looks like (it looks like a gray slab).

Or you could find your own primes. There's some open source code for the interested. [/shameless plug]

Fun for the whole family. Sort of.

Perfectly Scientific, Inc. sells posters of these primes, printed explicitly (in provocative notation?). If printer technology allows, there will soon be one for this 10 million digit beast too.

They're great if you're looking to test that macro lens on your digital SLR, or if you're just curious what 8 square feet of 1pt font looks like (it looks like a gray slab).

Or you could find your own primes. There's some open source code for the interested. [/shameless plug]

Fun for the whole family. Sort of.

Perfectly Scientific, Inc. sells posters of these primes, printed explicitly (in provocative notation?). If printer technology allows, there will soon be one for this 10 million digit beast too.

They're great if you're looking to test that macro lens on your digital SLR, or if you're just curious what 8 square feet of 1pt font looks like (it looks like a gray slab).

Or you could find your own primes. There's some open source code for the interested. [/shameless plug]

Fun for the whole family. Sort of.

I'm always a bit disappointed by these articles on case mods. I guess it's art, but it'd be cooler if the case were mobile...

This guy has taken a Mac Mini, an iSight, and a cheap interface board (called bTop) to create a programmable autonomous robot.

Somewhere out there I think there's a video of George's case mod chasing him around the room.

I'm always a bit disappointed by these articles on case mods. I guess it's art, but it'd be cooler if the case were mobile...

This guy has taken a Mac Mini, an iSight, and a cheap interface board (called bTop) to create a programmable autonomous robot.

Somewhere out there I think there's a video of George's case mod chasing him around the room.

Check out http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html for the OpenBSD posters. There's one for every release since 2.6, plus one for the OpenSSH project. I personally think that the 3.2 poster is the coolest yet, but that's just my opinion.

Also, check out this link for a poster containing a map of the Linux 2.4 source tree.

And if you're just in it for plain geeky posters, I would suggest Perfectly Scientific, for their range of Prime Number posters.

Zilla is mentioned at Apple here. Sounds like they are still playing with it.

Not surprising that they have it. Crandall wrote it (and pieces of Mathematica), and was Chief Scientist at NeXT. Now he's a "Distinguished Scientist" at Apple. Odds are he's got his own lab and a budget to do with as he pleases.

Also from that article: "Zilla was not used to find record-setting prime numbers, as is often supposed; instead, it was used to develop, through factoring and other number-theoretical calculations, certain cryptographic systems, tests, and algorithms such as Fast Elliptic Encryption (FEE), described below."

Funny thing that. I'd thought it was used for prime searches as well. When I had him as a professor at Reed he complained when the divide by zero bug was revealed in the Pentiums. Turns out he had to throw out a bunch of the searching he'd done on clusters at NeXT because some of the boxes he'd been running on were x86 based. Details of his ongoing research are at his site: http://www.perfsci.com.

-Noah