Introduction
Recently, I blogged about Mersenne prime numbers. Today, I saw the announcement of Say The Prime. Of course I will join the effort!
The goal of Say The Prime is to have people say all the 41 million digits of the 52nd Mersenne prime number on a YouTube Playlist. At a rate of 2 primes per second, that is about 8 months of content - impressive!
My digits
I was assigned the 419 digits 3772 until 4190, so I had to record myself saying:
84899 16752 24758 02289 14833 92952 58929
01292 81228 73739 22338 93368 46330 97159
54800 52022 47750 09676 45100 06799 89178
00230 57054 32094 83383 16326 31135 74888
43585 14039 61361 07647 07273 79607 22563
75908 51215 85373 49142 85574 20593 55708
91326 82291 72426 53213 48127 44084 76552
93152 87312 05963 30714 49699 70499 45342
69086 57434 11006 29158 92427 53991 38571
39321 66753 40499 13526 97149 98523 38187
27620 16319 14172 56912 69335 15740 70997
34236 57222 21157 27736 00389 36533 4278
Process
I recorded my voice right into Logic, not remembering to record a video. Recording and editing was quite annoying, so I decided to take the audio and put a vidoe to it. I used Hedron for a quick animation of a dodecahedron made out of (hidden) dodecahedra and metabidiminished icosahedra, which while quite unrelated to primes looks pretty nice…