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The Biggest Prime Number
This is a special type of prime number that i know mat knows all about. And steve, i think, just by osmosis, and knows about thatand is a really big one. It's the biggest. It's so big that mexico is going to pay for it. So you've got this big number, two times two times two time two, totite, bbabab and then you take one off the end, and it's a prime number. It's like magic. They're obviously a bit harder to find than i've described. To me they seem totally rand and utterly unknowable,. Like prime numbers just yo her and you can't possibly
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