New Largest Prime Number

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?

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."

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."

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.

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.

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?