New Largest Prime Number

Numbers might speak but do we all understand what they're saying? People say that numbers are a universal language, but it's not one I speak and nor do many others. I must admit to getting quite frustrated by the assumptions people make about people and numbers and maths in general, some of us are pretty much functionally illiterate with maths and yet nobody listens, nobody hears or understands and often don't even try.

Fear not. Numbers are not for everyone.

I like numbers like 1,3,5,7,9...Why? Because they're odd...just like me

I also like e and π...Why. Because they are also like me, irrational.

I also like i, which although strictly not a number, is my imaginary friend.

They probably already have the next Prime Number nipping at their feet wating with a complete regime change.

The new prime number needs to make a statement on the steps of 2. To give us our bearings for the numerical future. When times are mysterious, serious numbers speak to us all.  

The only thing I understand about prime numbers is the unique factorisation theorem. Which states that every integer greater than 1 can be factorised as a unique product of prime numbers.

Prime number!  

I miss read a lot.

I thought we were going to slag off the prime minister.  Which would have been much more fun.

Yes it is, it's totally confused too, I didn't understand the second half of your sentence at all.

Maths and numbers are all flat, black, shiney and jaggedy and theres nothing for my very organically structured brain to latch onto, I can just about cope with 2+2=4 and doing basic day to day stuff like how much change I should have, but anything else is beyond me. People get really angry and frustrated at how little I understand.

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Lovely. My pedantic gland has been calmed. 

TheCatWoman said:

Will it change the world?

The principle of the laser dates back to 1917, when Albert Einstein first described the theory of stimulated emission. The technology further evolved in May 1960 when the very first laser was built at Hughes Research Laboratories.

The first CO₂ laser, developed in 1964, had a power output of only one milliwatt (0.001 watt). By 1967, CO₂ lasers with power exceeding 1,000 watts were possible - an increase by a factor of one million. The first commercial application of Laser Materials Processing was in May of 1967 when Peter Houldcroft of TWI (The Welding Institute) in Cambridge, England used an oxygen-assisted CO₂ laser beam to cut through a sheet of steel 1 mm thick.

The rest is history. The laser is now ubiquitous.

Thank you for asking.

Mersenne prime — a series named after Marin Mersenne, a French monk and polymath who devised a formula for finding prime numbers by subtracting 1 from powers of 2. (The smallest Mersenne prime is 3 — or 2 to the power of 2, minus 1.)

Is your soul still troubled?

Thanks Nemo, I think I understood most of the words individually, but when put together, whats a mersine?

As for the usefulness of the discovery, "At present there are few practical uses for these large Mersenne primes, prompting some to ask, 'Why search for these large primes?" the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search team wrote in the statement. "Those same doubts existed a few decades ago until important cryptography algorithms were developed based on prime numbers."

My soul wasn't troubled until I read this, now it's a confused soul, does this number mean anything? Will it change the world?

Damn. I should have said "(2136,279,841 – 1) - 1" instead of "any of the 2^136,279,841 – 1". 

Does that work?  

Is your cousin Real or is he Imaginary? Perhaps he's complex

The Man Who Found Infinity is Tom Ray.

The Man Who Knew Infinity is Srinivasa Ramanujan.

It'll be inevitable till infinity is found. 

Ah.....they have finally found my cousin, "41 mill".......He is SO, SO much bigger than 50 cent.

LOL