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Primes update: success again!

In issue No 1 we introduced GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. Well, on Sunday 24th August 1997 they did it again.

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Pushing back Pi

Numbers like Pi have no repeating pattern. So just how accurately do we know what it is?

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Cosmos launch

COSMOS, the world's first national cosmology supercomputer, has been launched.