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The 52nd Mersenne prime was discovered on October 21, 2024. Despite intense effort, it took six years to surpass the 51st! It is the largest prime number ever found so far!
Dad & kid Exploring Areas of Rectangles and Squares.
Recently, I did a small exploration of the areas of rectangles and squares with my 7-year-old kid who loves learning about math. Here we consider rectangles with two positive integer side lengths, a and b. The area of a rectangle is A = a*b, and its circumference is C=2a+2b. Together, we computed A for various a and b with increasing square side s.
I will do this years Advent of Code 2023 in vanilla (only included libraries) python 3.11. I've joined the challenge a few times before - but never finished. Let's see how many days I manage this round :D