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The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile

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Recreational & visual mathPure mathematics

What it is

Numberphile with Tadashi Tokieda on the Trinity Hall Prime, a prime number whose digits form a picture of the college's coat of arms, left as a gift by a departing mathematician.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as the origin of the prime-number portrait trend and as an example of drawings made with primes.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall [1].”

    Explains a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall

    luisb, 2018-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Round Peg in a Square Hole [video]”

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Topics: prime numbers, numberphile, trinity hall, recreational math, primality testing

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