MATH: new number

And now for something completely relevant: Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written From: daveb@harlqn.co.uk (Dave Berry) Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, UK Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 19:15:59 GMT

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record. -- John Blasik

Mathematicians at Cambridge University announced today that they have discovered a new whole number between 27 and 28. "We don't know much about its properties", said a spokesman, "but it is causing lots of bother in equations. However, we do know that it's divisible by 6 - but only once". -- "On the hour", BBC Radio.