alt Hacker NewsThese are great! I wonder if Carl Sagan knew about them when writing Contact. The movie doesn't go into the part of the book that is relevant here (trying to avoid spoilers but if you read the book you know!)
These are great! I wonder if Carl Sagan knew about them when writing Contact. The movie doesn't go into the part of the book that is relevant here (trying to avoid spoilers but if you read the book you know!)
Here's a previous HN submission about finding Waldo in pi (spoiler: only by cheating significantly re what counts as "Waldo"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872676
I googled around trying to figure out what year James McKee created the Trinity Hall prime. The internet is (IMO) presenting it mainly as some kind of Wonder of the Ancient World — with the date of creation conveniently filed off. The first post below claims that the year McKee left Cambridge and created the prime was 1996. It seems to have hit peak internet presence only in the 2010s, though, so I wish there were an authoritative source to confirm (or deny) the 1996 date.
https://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/artistic-prime-numbers
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/09/10/trinity-hall-prime...
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2020/01/12/more-prime-images/