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Sugar Mountain

A Compilation of Neil Young Set Lists

Welcome to Sugar Mountain, a compilation of set lists from Neil Young’s concert performances. If you have any additions, corrections or comments please free to contact Tom Hambleton at [email protected]

Many thanks to all of the contributors who have provided input and data for this project.

1998 Farm Aid and Bridge shows

Check out Ghosts On The Road if you’d interested in the definitive book on Neil Young’s concert performances.

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Crawford

Michael David Crawford

[ Business | Pleasure | Computers | Politics | Friends | Enemies | Surfing ]

 

Business

“The social value of what IBM and Microsoft delivered is far greater than any harm they could have done by anticompetitive practices.”Stanford Law Professor William Baxter, who dropped the IBM case as head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in 1982,
San Francisco Chronicle, July 24, 1995, page E7.

  • What I do
  • Find a job
  • My Resume
  • What I have published
  • What programs I’ve written
  • Shameless plugs for products I like
  • Visit my former employer, Live Picture, Inc.
  • The Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce
  • Find links for your industry at FindLinks
  • I use anonymous digital cash from DigiCash
  • Unrestrained rants about products I don’t like
  • GoingWare (formerly Crawford Software Consulting)
  • “Soft and Warm is Our Last Name” The Micro Soft(tm) page
  • Boycott the businesses on the Blacklist of Internet Advertisers
  • The Santa Cruz County Computer Industry Index Local Jobs!
  • Spam is trademark of Hormel Foods, and should be kept off the Usenet News.

Pleasure

  • A totally useless list of my compact disks and record albums
  • My favorite stuff from the Usenet News
  • Oswald sings the blues
  • Recommended reading
  • Telescope making
  • My photography
  • Burning Man
  • My cat Pishi
  • My music
  • My art

Computers

“If I wanted to work for the soulless undead, I’d write Windows code.”David Shayer, [email protected], on the Semper.Fi mailing list.

  • Come Be with Me
  • Mike’s homebrewed Java
  • Tips and tricks with MacsBug
  • My Programmer’s Bag of Tricks
  • Visit the Historical Computer Society.
  • I challenge the Net to write a faster Life game than me.
  • Fun software and source code at Mike’s Stupid Mac Tricks.
  • This page is lynx-enhanced. Find out what I think of Netscape.
  • Read about the terrors of software development in high energy physics.
  • Use a source debugger to develop screen savers with the After Dark Testbed
  • Interapplication spelling and grammar checking for Macintosh and BeOS with The Word Services Suite.

Politics

We have a different kind of Republican here in The People’s Republic of Santa Cruz:

“I wish you warm, personal sex.”Assemblyman Bruce MacPherson,
speaking at the Commencement of the Santa Cruz High School Class of ’95,
Good Times, June 29, 1995.

  • Read about McPherson’s political advisor getting mauled by a dog attempting to steal drugs.
  • What Governor addressed the California Legislature on the coming Armaggeddon? (70kb)
  • Why did thousands of Filipinos die fighting for their independence from the U.S?
  • Have you exported a cryptosystem today? Do public key in three lines of Perl!
  • Dial 1-800-GO-PAT-GO (800-467-2846). It will cost Pat Buchanan a buck!
  • I tried real hard to get a Ph.D. How did Newt Gingrich do it?
  • I worked on Jerry Brown’s presidential campaign in ’92.
    Find out what We The People are up to now.
  • I listen to Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM.
  • Find a Free Radio station in your area.
  • Read what I have to say on politics.
  • Visit The Left Side of the Web.
  • Who is Rusty Sharpe?
  • Tax the Rich

Friends

Check out my friends on the net. Miffed that you’re not on my inner circle? Send me your URL!

Enemies

  • Just kidding.

Surfing

  • Patrick Combs cashed a junk mail check for $95,093.33 and got to keep the money.
  • They’re dropping like flies down at the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
  • I get my news and information from the Jack Chick Archive.
  • If it doesn’t rot, it’s not good for you. The Spam Cam
  • A very good thing to do with those pesky AOL disks.
  • Take some, leave some, at the California Cryobank
  • Call the plumber! It’s the G. Gordon Liddy page.
  • Send e-mail to God at Prayers Heavenbound.
  • Find your old school chums at Alumni Net
  • Borders Books censors pro-union author.
  • Tap in to the National Security Agency.
  • The Dysfunctional Family Circus.
  • A plea from a sick little girl.
  • Jeff’s House of Raw Pork.
  • Bob the Angry Flower.
  • Adam Enhanced.
  • The Menu Man
  • Spuck #6.

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Luke

[IH8UNIX California License Plate]

Yes, I really hate UNIX. Didn’t used to feel that way, back in the 70’s. The last straw came in 1983. We bought the source from AT&T; — all the comments had been stripped out!

  • Visit the Unix Haters’ Handbook
  • Read the shocking but true History of UNIX (originally from rec.humor.funny)

Meanwhile, look for me filling up right in Sun Micro‘s face at the ARCO station on San Antonio in Mountain View, California. (It’s an ’87 Mustang.)


Mersenne Prime Numbers

Every few years somebody discovers a new “World’s Largest Prime Number”, monsters with thousands of digits. These record holders are usually of a special form first described by the Jesuit-educated, 17th century French Minim monk Marin Mersenne. In 1988, Walt Colquitt and I found the 29th Mersenne Prime. I’ve set up a page on Marin Mersenne and Mersenne Primes.


The Moscow Circus’s Flying Cranes

While in Reno, I saw the most amazing flying trapeze act. It was a thing of beauty. I am in the process of doing a web page about them. Please visit, and check back soon as I have more material to include.


Techno Stomp

I’m extremely particular as to my tastes in music. Learn about Kraftwerk and Orbital. While you’re there, be sure to visit my Die Wildecker Herzbuben page. Like Howlin’ Wolf used to sing, I’m built for comfort, I ain’t built for speed.


Babe Expert, Chester Lee

So, Chester Lee knows babes, does he? Hah! Chester spent too much time on the wrong campus. A mis-spent youth. This is what college is all about.


Clam Beach

Every year my nephew and I take a trip, usually around California. He likes to “go exploring”. We explored Clam Beach in 1996.


CleanSpeak

I prefer the term INFOBAHN over INTERNET. I dislike the phrase INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.

It is cleaner to say 2K27 than TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN.   2K1, A Space Odyssey?


Links worth following to people I know, organizations I work with, or places I’ve been.

 Gordon Irlam
gordoni is a remarkable fellow. Trust me — read his A Penny for my Thoughts? (especially his hilarious Visitors to our web site), or visit his machine’s home page.
 Norman Arnold
Norman is a friend. I call him when I need help with an app or with HTML (Has Too Many Links). He now has a real job at Systems Chemistry who immediately sent him to Singapore for 8 weeks.
 Jim Norling
Jim has no web presence, but he does have a URL. Huh? He is of Swedish ancestry, related to old Albert Norling who also had no common sense. In Västerås, Albert is remembered for having driven his tractor over (and through) thin ice.
 ABB Atom Nuclear Products
ABB-Atom, in Sweden, designs and builds nuclear reactors. They also manufacture nuclear fuel, which is where I come in. I design (and program) inspection equipment that looks for manufacturing defects in nuclear fuel rods.
 Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig is in the former East Germany. I was there in October 1991, immediately after the reunification. Then the whole city was gray. Now it is alive and colorful.
 Salamanca, Spain
Salamanca is an ancient city is western Spain. The university there was founded in 1264. There are tens of thousands of students and is the perfect place for young tourists to visit. Here is a slower link to Salamanca. There is also an InfoBahn Bar where you can eat a snack, drink beer, and surf the net.

Links to the Bodaciously Cool Laurel & Hardy

 Laurel & Hardy!
Steve Ramsey has set up some very fine pages in tribute to The Boys. There is also a nice collection of audio and image files ready to grab.
 The Laurel and Hardy Museum
The museum is in the UK. Read about Stephen Harrison’s Great Adventure there.
 Sons of the Desert
One Good Turn tent, Oasis 156.
Way Out West tent, Oasis 5.
History of the Laughing Gravy Birmgingham .uk tent, Oasis 167.
Laughing Gravy .au/.nz tent, Oasis 31.
Perfect Day .nl tent, Oasis 13.
Midnight Patrol tent, Oasis 57.
 A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
Finally, Steve Mazoki has a some nice pages, including a link to CUCKOO.WAV – their theme song.

Morons From Space, the Pakleds

 Pakled World
Robert York is smart. He looks for things, things for him to post. Sound clips and images of Pakleds. He is smart. Do not try to fool him. He can tell. He is smart.
 The Samaritan Snare
An excellent review of the STTNG episode, cast members, a couple of images, etc. BTW, the Pakleds look for things. Did you know that they found Data’s evil brother Lore floating in space?
 We are far from home
The Pakled Captain’s name is ‘Grebnedlog’ (Goldenberg), played by the late Christopher Collins.
 Grebnedlog’s Friend
The Pakled Engineer’s name is ‘Reginnod’ (Donniger) played by Leslie Morris. Is everything an anagram? Their ship was the Mondor. What’s that? D’Moron? Is Pakled an anagram?
 PACLED1.ZIP
This is a commercial site: you have to pay to download.

Volume I of .WAV files from the Pacled episode of Star Trek – TNG (Pacled’s are the less-than-smart aliens). A few notable quotes worth playing with.

If you where to get this for free (or if you liberate a copy) let me know. Here’s another commercial site.

 Extinct Link http://www.pcgamesmag.com/startalk/star696.html
There’s an interactive STTNG game on CD ROM. PC Games Magazine interviewed Robert O’Reilly who plays Gowron. Evidently the Pakleds have roles in the game.

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Mersenne

Marin Mersenne
[Old painting of Marin Mersenne]
Our Hero (1588 – 1648)
digitized by Doug Anderson
 

 

Corrections — Please Read
(4 December 1996)
Mersenne was a Minim friar. Minims are not Jesuits. He was, however, educated by the Jesuits. Furthermore, Mersenne was not an Inquisitor. Indeed, he was probably quite a pleasant fellow. Please read these enlightening and scholarly emails that I received. (Learn the fate of his old residence!)

 


Who was Marin Mersenne?

You are probably visiting here because of an interest in Mersenne Primes. It was not until the mid 20th century that Mersenne became known primarily for his Prime Number Conjecture. Historically, he was much better known for his correspondence with leading scientists of the day (hence the other Mersenne Mailing List). Interested in optics, he also been called (no pun intended) the Father of Acoustics. Here are some links that will tell you something about the man himself:

[Yellow Dot] a nice biography (and another picture!) courtesy of the Algebra Group WWW Server of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Here is a larger version of the same portrait (jpeg, 280×340, 9 KB). Thanks twice to Björn Hedin and to Björn Hedin
[Yellow Dot] another nice biography by Richard S. Westfal of Indiana University, Bloomington as part of the wonderful Galileo Project at Rice University (my Mom’s school).
[Yellow Dot] a biography from the Encylopedia Britannica Online. Evidently, Mersenne was the grandfather of the pendulum clock, or did he get the idea from Galileo?
[Yellow Dot] a biography from the Encyclopedia Americana
[Yellow Dot] a biography from the Grolier‘s Encyclopedia Windows CD-ROM
[Yellow Dot] a book by Peter Dear, Mersenne And The Learning Of The Schools, is currently (4 July 1997) available at the Amazon dot Com cyberbookstore. I read Chapter 1: Introduction. And Chapter 2: Humanism and the Implications of Rhetoric. But I’m stalled near the end of Chapter 3: Dialectic, Probabilism, and “Mitigated Scepticism”. Lots of footnotes and a 21-page bibliography. US$40 plus US$4 shipping.

Mersenne Numbers and Mersenne Primes

[Green Dot] MUST READ   Chris Caldwell has an absolutely first-rate page Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems and Lists. He also maintains the definitive Largest Known Primes page.
[Green Dot] Visit my Mersenne Number Library and Bibliography with a lot of articles and links to people like Hans Riesel (M3217), Landon Noll (M21701 and M23209), and Samuel Wagstaff (distribution of factors).
[Finger pointing to the right] Here’s the link everybody is looking for: George Woltman’s Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. People all over the world are using his program in an orchestrated search for the next Mersenne Prime. George has highly Pentium-optimized a specialized multiplication algorithm byRichard Crandall (of Perfectly Scientific, Inc — ‘the scientific algorithm company’, and formerly with NeXT) and Barry Fagin. 486, PowerMac, Alpha, HP users, almost everybody, can help, too. Dan Gilmore, of the San Jose Mercury News, wrote a newspaper article about GIMPS, dated June 22, 1996. Also Len Ruth and his students at The Sinclair Community College are searching.
 

GIMPS Mirrors
[flag of North Carolina] GIMPS Home Page
[flag of Poland] (dead?) WIELKIE Internetowe Poszukiwania Liczb Pierwszych Mersenne’a
(dead?) The GREAT Internet Mersenne Prime Search
[flag of France] La Grande Recherche Internet sur les Nombres Premiers de Mersenne
[flag of Germany] Die große Internetsuche nach Mersenne’schen Primzahlen
[flag of Italy] La Grande Ricerca Internet dei Numeri Primi di Mersenne
[flag of Denmark] Den STORE Internet Mersenne Primtal Søgning
….thanks for the flags, David.

 

[Green Dot] (4 December 1996) GIMPS finds a new World’s Largest Prime Number! Joel Armengaud, running George Woltman’s program, found M1398269, the 35th known Mersenne prime. I’m hoping that Joel will send me a photo of himself taken on rue des Minimes in Paris.

[Yellow Dot] George Woltman’s official press release.
[Yellow Dot] Dan Gilmore always writes well. Here is his article in the San Jose Mercury News (northern California daily newspaper).
[Yellow Dot] Of course, Chris Caldwell will explain it better than I.
[Yellow Dot] Ivars Peterson’s well written article in Science News Magazine (American weekly magazine).
[Yellow Dot] Here’s a fun newspaper article about M1398269 and Jamie Foster. He is a GIMPS member in San Luis Obispo, one of my favorite cities along California’s beautiful coast and the gateway to Highway One.
[Green Dot] (1 September 1997) 22,976,221 – 1 is Prime! Another new discovery by GIMPS! The 36th known Mersenne prime is a whopper with 895,932 digits.

[Yellow Dot] George Woltman’s Press Release.
[Yellow Dot] Gordon Spence found it.
[Yellow Dot] Chris Caldwell discusses it.
[Yellow Dot] The Times of London newspaper article.
[Yellow Dot] very good article from CNN.
[Yellow Dot] Ivars Peterson comes through again.
[New!] (2 February 1998) Will they ever stop? 23,021,377 – 1 is Prime! Yet another new discovery by GIMPS! Not quite a million digits long, it is the 37th known Mersenne prime.

[Yellow Dot] George Woltman’s Press Release.
[Yellow Dot] It was discovered by Roland Clarkson, a student at Califonia State University, Dominguez Hills.
[Yellow Dot] Chris Caldwell’s Giant Slaying Refined page.
[Yellow Dot] San Jose Mercury News article of 2 Feb, 1998
[Yellow Dot] I’ll add a link here as soon as Ivars Peterson writes an article.
[Yellow Dot] The PrimeNet Server immediately sent this Special Advance Notice when M#37 was found.
[Yellow Dot] The PrimeNet Server immediately updated the ‘cleared’ page. Jean-Yves Canart downloaded a copy and has made it available for your perusal. (Search for ‘3021377’ and look at the residue.)
[New!] (6 Feb 1998 ) A newspaper article CSUDH student is in his prime (number) (The Press Telegram, Long Beach, California)
[New!] (6 Feb 1998) A newpaper article Student Finds Largest Prime Number Ever (Los Angeles Times, California)
[Yellow Dot] When I get a copy, I’ll link to an article in the Daily Breeze (Torrance, California)
[New!] (7 Feb 1998) Food Fight! Kurt Foster wrote the winning post.
[New!] (7 Feb 1998) Record battu !
[Green Dot] (15 March 1997) George Woltman sends out periodic GIMPS newsletters. You can read them all on Will Edgington’s Mersenne Newsletters Page.
[Green Dot] (9 February 1997) How fast is your PC? Lennart Grebelius now maintains an informative Mersenne Prime Benchmark page. The page should look familiar to GIMPS members. Can a Pentium 166 run faster than a Pentium 200? Lennart also tracks GIMPS progress in P90 CPU years/day. Great page!
[Green Dot] (17 October 1996) By popular demand, Herb Savage has created some colorful, graphical representations of the current status of the Mersenne prime search. Check back periodically and watch gray turn to blueblue to green, and maybe even a new, red pixel or two!
[New!] (31 January 1998) The Unofficial GIMPS Graphical Status Page by David J. Fred. Similar to Herb’s images, David graphically shows the current GIMPS staus to the highest p.
[Green Dot] (15 March 1997) The February 1997 issue Wired Magazine has an item on George Woltman and GIMPS. See Wired News: Electric Word: Prime Time. Unfortunately, they misspelled Joel Armengaud’s name. Here is a scanned image of the original (250Kb).
[Green Dot] The Mersenne Prime Mailing List. Communicate with people discussing anything and everything about Mersenne Primes. You don’t have to write anything, you are welcome to just listen in. You can read all of the old posts in the list’s archives.
[Green Dot] John Vinopal has been working on a helpful Mersenne Primes page. He explains some things quite well.
[Green Dot] His Mathematica notebook on Mersenne Primes has been made available by Paul Wellin. He also has one on searching for perfect numbers. You don’t have Mathematica? To view his notebooks, get a free copy of MathReader.
[Green Dot] Susan Stepney discusses Mersenne primesthe Lucas-Lehmer testPerfect numbers and more.
[Green Dot] A post dated 2 Apr 1992 by David Slowinski to comp.sys.super, comp.unix.cray, and sci.math (with a follow-up by Bob Silverman). He mentions different machines in the hunt and that M756839 took 19 hours on a Cray-2. Here is Bob Silverman’s reaction to the discovery of M756839.
[Green Dot] Courtesy of Eric’s Treasure Trove of Mathematics, a page that lists “Mersenne numbers” and their factorizations. This page defines a Mersenne number to be 2^n-1 (n not necessarily prime).
[Green Dot] This is the FORTRAN program (PrimeZilla) that found M110503 on the NEC SX-2 at the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC). Optimized for the idiosyncrasies of parallel and vectorized computing, it ran at about 2 gigaflops and took about 11 minutes to test M110503.
[Green Dot] David Slowinski’s announcement of his and Paul Gage’s discovery that M859433 is prime. Thanks to Warut Roonguthai for the link.
[Green Dot] There is a growing list of Mersenne freeware. You should be able to find something that will run on your computer. The page is now maintained by and hosted by Conrad Curry. And a big Thanks! to Michael Taylor who was the previous host and maintainer.
 

Mersenne Freeware Mirrors
Need:
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Conrad Curry, Southern US naster site
[flag of Massachussets] Ethan M. O’Connor, Eastern US mirror
[flag of Sweden] Lennart Grebelius, Sweden, European mirror
[flag of California] Luke Welsh, Northern California mirror

 

[Green Dot] Some of us Mersenne guys had a meeting at the Tied House and I took some photos. They turned out pretty well.
[Green Dot] (1 October 1996) David Slowinski and Paul Gage struck paydirt once again! They found M1257787, the 34th known Mersenne prime. Here’s where you can read all about it:

[Yellow Dot] Landon Noll’s SGI press release
[Yellow Dot] SGI’s official hack of Landon’s release
[Yellow Dot] A Cray page that says about the same thing.
[Yellow Dot] Chris Caldwell’s outstanding page (and corrections to SGI’s hack)
[Yellow Dot] Dan Gilmore’s excellent article in the San Jose Mercury News (northern California daily newspaper)
[Yellow Dot] Ivar Peterson’s also excellent article in Science News Magazine (American weekly magazine)
[Yellow Dot] A rather uninspired article from U.S. News And World Report (American weekly news magazine)
[Yellow Dot] Bloomberg Business News report. Nothing original, just a rehash of the facts.
[Yellow Dot] A short announcement on the American Math Society’s e-math site. Thanks (again) to Warut Roonguthai for the link.
[Green Dot] (1 Oktober 1996) Von Die Zeit “Auf Primzahl-Jagd im Internet”. Vielen Dank!, Cornelius Caesar.
[Green Dot] (10 October 1996) Jeffrey O. Shallit has a wonderful Mersenne Bibliography with many entries that I was not aware of.
[Green Dot] (29 October 1996) GIMPS’s George Woltman was on Canadian radio. George did a great job, as did the program’s host. I decided that the event warranted its own wwweb page.
[Green Dot] (4 December 1996) This is wonderful! The GIMPS project is exciting some young imaginations. More and more young people are becoming interested in Mersenne primes. The Student’s Mersenne Prime Page has just gone online. Oliver Grebelius is a 7th grade student in Sweden. Let’s wish him great success.
[Green Dot] (8 December 1996) I am awarding the Most Beautiful Prime Page Prize to Marlene Menard. You’ve seen how professional mathematicians design Mersenne wwweb pages. Take a look at how a professional graphics artist views the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.
[Green Dot] (16 January 1997) Herr Factormeister Will Edgington has somehow found time to do a page on Mersenne numbers. This page is recommended reading.
[Green Dot] (26 March 1997) From the 1982 Guinness Book of World Records, Harry Nelson and David Slowinski “celebrate their discovery, clothed in computer printouts.”
[Green Dot] (22 April 1997) Psssssst! Yeah, you. Come over here. Do you want to see a picture of BESK? This baby can crank out nearly three thousand 40-bit multiplies per second. Learn more from Hans Riesel himself, plus some stories about his search for M3217.
[Green Dot] (4 July 1997) Largest Known Prime Number Discovered on the Vietnamese Association for Computing, Engineering Technology, and Science (VACETS) site. Dated 10 Sept 96, it apparently has been hiding from the search engines — I only recently found it. Very well written, I recommend this page even though my name is misspelled.
[Green Dot] (4 July 1997) Bekannte Mersenne-Primzahlen von Argee. Kriterium von Lucas-LehmerKriterium von EulerPerfekte (vollkommene) Zahlen, und Literaturnachweis.
[Green Dot] (4 July 1997) I don’t know why I didn’t link to this before. Robert Zubek has created a number of clean-looking GIMPS graphics, buttons, banners, etc. Check them out!
[New!] (31 January 1998) For every Mersenne Prime there is a corresponding Perfect Number. Naohiro Nomoto is a mathematics fan in Japan. He has made a Perfect Number Home Page. Also available in Japanese.

Mersenne Odds and Mersenne Ends

[Yellow Dot] Here’s an article on acoustics that discusses Mersenne’s Laws from the Encylopedia Britannica Online
[Yellow Dot] The Wave Theory of Sound by Allan D. Pierce mentions some of Mersenne’s contributions to acoustics. Courtesy of the Acoustical Society of America.
[Yellow Dot] Mersenne reproduced some experiments of Marin Getaldic. Which experiments? Visit this devil in mathematics whose inventions were feared by his compatriots and even more by his enemies. (Croatian site, .hr = Hrvatska).
[Yellow Dot] Pop Quiz: What is a Mersenne telescope? Give an example of a modern application. (NASA site.) Thanks go to Brian Jones. BTW, Stevick-Paul telescopes are similar to Mersenne telescopes.
[Yellow Dot] Coming Attraction: Magnetic Monster! Starring the SWAC as MANIAC with music by Mersenne and sets by Alex Hurwitz. Can the Earth be saved? I have it and hope to make a Quicktime clip. Here is a sneak preview (and a mirror). Und hier ist der Inhalt.
[Yellow Dot] A series of five articles on Doctor Robert Fludd (1574-1637) By Sharon M.W. “A French scientist and author named Marin Mersenne accused Fludd of being a magician, an atheist and heretic.” Articles 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Mersenne is mentioned in Articles 4 and 5.
[Yellow Dot] Bagpipes? Mersenne and bagpipes? What? (Go there and use your web browser’s Search function.)
[Yellow Dot] If you are a young programmer or mathematician and you’ve never heard of him, do yourself a favor and visit the World’s Best Programmer. And here is the proof.
[Yellow Dot] Everybody know what twin primes are, but how many of you have ever seen prime twins? Walt Colquitt is going to retaliate against me for this, but it’s worth it.
[Yellow Dot] Bah! Who cares about World Record Mersenne Primes? Here is a page about what matters the Most about Mersenne primes!
[Yellow Dot] There are photographs of Mersenius a crater and a rift on the moon named in honor of Mersenne (US Navy site). The photos are also on a French site Navigation sur la LUNE. Susan Stepney kindly designed a Mersenne on the Moon page to help you locate the crater on the moon’s surface — in astronomical terms, it’s in the lower left-hand corner. Thanks to Richard Easther for tracking down Mersenius for me.
[Green Dot] (22 July 1997) Mersenne was a Minim priest and lived in the Minim convent in Paris. It was destroyed during the French Revolution. But there is still a street named rue des Minimes. You might be surprised.

Pronunciations by Native Speakers

Hopefully this will answer some questions. I’d like to add a few more like “Fermat”, “Euler”, “Uhler”, “Lehmer”, “Knuth”, “Kraitchik”, and especially “Fauquembergue”, etc. Any volunteers?

[Green Dot] (3 August 1996) The name of Marin Mersenne. The correct pronunciation of Marin was a surprise to me.
20 Kb audio file in WAV format. Recorded and spoken by Timour Jgenti, et ici en Français
[Green Dot] (3 August 1996) The name of François Édouard Anatole Lucas. The s in Lucas is silent.
30 Kb audio file in WAV format. Recorded and spoken by Timour Jgenti, et ici en Français
[Green Dot] (3 August 1996) The name of Anatolii Alekseevich Karatsuba.
27 Kb audio file in WAV format. Recorded and spoken by Timour Jgenti, et ici en Français
[Green Dot] (6 August 1996) The name of Emma Markovna Trotskaia (Emma Lehmer).
22 Kb audio file in WAV format. Spoken by Olga Sorkin.
[Green Dot] (6 August 1996) The name of Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin.
21 Kb audio file in WAV format. Spoken by Yuri Sorkin.
[Green Dot] (14 October 1996) The name of Hans Riesel.
21 Kb audio file in WAV format. Recorded and spoken by Oliver Grebelius.

Interlinks

[Yellow Dot] Links? You want links? Keith’ll give you links! Keith Matthews maintains the Number Theory Web with sites in North America and Australia.
[Yellow Dot] Mersenne People. Stand up and be counted! Add your name to the list of those who have an interest in Mersenne primes.

Stuff To Do

[Green Dot] Hang a photo or two of Walt and the NEC SX-2.
[Green Dot] Solicit other old Mersenne Number hunters for old photos, source code, horror stories, etc.
[Green Dot] Add more Stuff To Do.

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Tytmag

Celebrating our 15th
Year of Publishing

…published by the winner of the Dog Writers of America Association for, ‘Best Single Breed Publication’!

It is our goal at TYT Magazine to bring breeders and owners the most complete Yorkshire Terrier information available. Any information you feel should be considered for this homepage (including your links), or for the magazine, please feel free to e-mail us.

Published bi-monthly (6 times a year) each issue carefully combines educational and informative articles, reader opinions, beautiful advertisements, and many photos all reproduced with the highest quality printing. Additional features include: show statistics, veterinary information, specialty reports, candid interviews with breeders, breeders forums and more. A complete library on Yorkies and the publication you need to become more informed and educated about the breed.

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