From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [alt.religion.kibology] World's largest prime discovered! Date: 26 Sep 1997 15:10:01 -0700 Subject: World's largest prime discovered! From: tanner@math.wisc.edu (Stephen Will Tanner) Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology, sci.math ************************************************ ************************************************ ************************************************ ************************************************ ************************************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ SCALE: <---------> 1 mi. The global mathematical Project. "We give you community was startled Voltaire, you give us Big today by the "discovery"-- Mac. Look what you did to or rather "unveiling"--of La Femme Nikita. It is the world's largest prime not fair. Well, look at on a hillside near Paris, what we have now!" France. "Heh, that's the French Constructed entirely from for you," commented Isaac marble, the prime is so Brauer. "I guess they big that some experts say needed a better tourist it may disrupt traffic at attraction than that Euro- the nearby Roissey Charles Disney thing." Brauer is de Gaulle airport. head of a Bell Labs effort to use nanotechnology to "We are tired of seeing mass-produce new bumper- culture-less countries like stickers with IF YOU CAN the United States get all READ THIS YOU'RE TOO CLOSE the big discoveries," said written on them in twelve- Frederique Auguste,director molecule-high letters. of France's Largest Prime