{"id":308,"date":"2003-12-11T17:16:33","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T22:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/they_couldve_just_asked_me_wha\/"},"modified":"2003-12-11T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T22:16:33","slug":"they_couldve_just_asked_me_wha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/they_couldve_just_asked_me_wha\/","title":{"rendered":"They Could&#8217;ve Just Asked Me What It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/science\/12\/11\/prime.number.ap\/\">Student finds largest known prime number<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 200,000 computers spent years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer&#8217;s off-the-shelf PC.<br \/>\n&#8220;It was just a matter of time,&#8221; Shafer said.<br \/>\nThe number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out. It is more than 2 million digits larger than the previous largest known prime number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/they_couldve_just_asked_me_wha\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to They Could&#8217;ve Just Asked Me What It Is\"><p>&#8220;Student finds largest known prime number&#8220;: More than 200,000 computers spent years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer&#8217;s off-the-shelf PC. &#8220;It was just a matter of time,&#8221; Shafer said. The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}