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Another Breakthrough in Prime Number Theory
Battal Boy writes "From aimath.org: Dan Goldston and his Turkish colleague Yalcin Cem Yildirim have smashed all previous records on the size of small gaps between prime numbers. This work is a major step toward the centuries-old problem of showing that there are infinitely many 'twin primes': prime numbers which differ by 2, such as 11 and 13, 17 and 19, 29 and 31,...I am especially proud of this achievement as Yalcin is a close friend of mine from way back! You may also want to check out the Mercury News Article and Dan Goldston's home page where you can see a photo of Dan's back being slowly but surely broken by two of his children ..." Finding patterns in primes seems to be all the rage.
While the importance of what you're saying can't be overstated, I guarantee you there is no application of this finding that will impact John Carmack's work on the next Doom engine. ;-)
More importantly, he should make sure NOT to shoot down the stalactite in the Gravity Chamber. There's a missile expansion in there, and shooting down the stalactite exposes a grapple point to get to the missiles.
However, if you shoot that down, and leave the room without claiming the missile expansion, then the grapple point is dead forever after. Since you can shoot that thing down long before you get the grapple beam, this is easy to do.
If you do this, you can still beat the game, you just can't reach 100% items and get the third ending. That really pissed me off when I reached 99%.