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NCommander adds: So its finally here, and I wanted to apologize for the long delay before this actually happened. To the editoral team, please bump this to the top of the index for the next 24 hours so everyone gets a chance to see it (click 'fastforward' then save to autoupdate the timestamp). I promise a Featured Story option is coming in the next major update so we don't have to deal with this!
(Score: 3, Informative) by sgleysti on Wednesday April 09 2014, @03:58PM
This is perhaps the most appropriate place to mention that 8675309 is a prime number.
Thank you, that is all.
(Score: 2) by oodaloop on Wednesday April 09 2014, @04:03PM
mind==blown [aprimenumber.com]
Many Bothans died to bring you this comment.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday April 09 2014, @04:07PM
Mind == blown
If it wasn't just such a hard to remember name >.;;;;
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by Adrian Harvey on Wednesday April 09 2014, @07:36PM
I guess you could just license the music from Tommy Tutone and auto-play it to everyone who visits. Everyone would remember it, all right! Maybe no one would come back, but you would have the satisfaction of leaving the tune going round in everyone's heads for days.
For those who missed the 80's, or those who miss the 80's, here's the oblig. YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axLRUszuu9I [youtube.com]
And, I had no it was prime, either... I wonder if Tommy knew
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 09 2014, @04:29PM
Well, it's just the 582161th prime. Is 582161th-prime.org already taken? :-)
Oh wait, 582161 itself is also prime. It's the 47752th prime.
Now 47752 unfortunately is not a prime, but it is 0xba88, which is easy to remember. Also you might read "ba" as shortened "beta". I'm not sure what to make of the 88, though.