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Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers | Adam Spencer
17 minutes Posted Sep 3, 2013 at 8:07 am.
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They're millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down -- what's not to love about monster primes? Adam Spencer, comedian and lifelong math geek, shares his passion for these odd numbers, and for the mysterious magic of math.