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Just saw this ad on Flickr (posted by Evil Petting Zoo 42). If you’ve never seen it before, it appeared on a billboard in Silicon Valley in 2004, evidently bearing a math problem (and not an easy one). Suffice it to say that “e,” in mathematics, is the limit of (1 + 1/n) to the n, as n tends to infinity. Its value is around 2.718281828459045235. Finding the first 10-digit prime number in consecutive digits of e would seem to be a difficult task, but some math whizzes managed it (one after writing “a little python script”).

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