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The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile

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Tadashi Tokieda explains the Trinity Hall Prime, a prime number whose digits form the pattern of a college coat of arms.

A prime number "gift" from a mathematicians leaving his college. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Featuring Tadashi Tokieda. More Tadashi: bit.ly/tadashi_vids Professor McKee explains: "Most of the digits of p were fixed so that: (i) the top two thirds made the desired pattern; (ii) the bottom third ensured that p-1 had a nice large (composite) factor F with the factorisation of F known. Numbers of this shape can easily be checked for primality. A small number of digits (you can see which!) were looped over until p was found that was prime." Animation and editing by Pete McPartlan. Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI): bit.ly/MSRINumberphile We are also supported by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science. NUMBERPHILE Website: numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: twitter.com/numberphile Subscribe: bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub Videos by Brady Haran Patreon: patreon.com/numberphile Brady's videos subreddit: reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ Brady's latest videos across all channels: bradyharanblog.com/ Sign up for (occasional) emails: eepurl.com/YdjL9

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What people say. Recommended as a fascinating look at prime number patterns and drawing with primes.

luisbon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Round Peg in a Square Hole [video]”

Tadashi is awesome! I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall 1. Highly recommend all videos from Numberphile 2 and Fermat's Library 3. 1 link to this video 2 link 3 link

ehsankiaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Corpus Christi Prime”

Here is one script 0 that was posted on Github yesterday, I believe a few others have been popping up ever since this video 1 by Numberphile on Thursday. 0 link 1 link to this video

jamessbon Hacker News • Mentions

On “A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe”

Previously on HN, someone posted the The Corpus Christi Prime blog post 1, which was inspired by the Numerphile Trinity Hall Prime video 2. See also Zachary Abel's Prime Portraits article 3. 1: link 2: link to this video 3: link

gus_massaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub”

A nice example are the drawings using prime numbers. For example see "The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile" link to this video "The Emerging Art of Drawing in Prime Numbers" link