Notices by robinhouston (robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz)

Technically è is an upper case letter, whereas é is lower case

https://saytheprime.com/

As for how I found out ahead of time: someone jumped the gun and added it prematurely to Wikipedia. The edit was quickly reverted, but it remained in the history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Largest_known_prime_number&diff=prev&oldid=1251490380

I'm amused to see that @standupmaths's video on this newly-discovered prime actually makes use of the property I mentioned in my first post: that it fits neatly into an 80-column terminal window.

https://youtu.be/zsyGRDrDfbI?si=LN6wLfMkKIfEtXC_

The cat's out of the bag: I can relax now. https://www.mersenne.org/

I found out the exponent of the new Mersenne prime before it’s been officially announced, and I feel as though I’m in possession of a deep, dark secret.

I hope I’m not giving too much away if I remark that in base 10 it has a number of digits that is a multiple of 80, which means it scrolls very neatly down a standard-width terminal.

If I asked you which of these points is the anticlockmost, you'd know, wouldn't you, even though afaict no one has ever used that word before?

@jonty What a great weekend though! (It sounds as though my weekend was very similar to yours.)