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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime number is one which is divisible only by itself and 1. Thus 7, 13, 17 and 23 are prime numbers. In Chicago, one Samuel I. Krieger covered 72 sheets of foolscap paper, wore six pencils to stubs. Last week he announced a 72-digit prime number, challenged the world to show him a bigger one. His number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...wish above to state exactly that the number 3 will go 7,719,472,615,821.079,694,904,732,339,125,271,902,179,989,777,093,376,026,305,275,419,759,957 times. Therefore, Krieger's waste of paper and pencils was Therefore, for naught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Likewise wasted were Reader Bronson's paper & pencils. Samuel Krieger's number is not divisible by 3; and if it were, the quotient would be about ten times greater than Reader Bronson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...prime number is one which is divisible only by itself and 1. Thus 7, 13, 17, and 23 are prime numbers. In Chicago, one Samuel I. Krieger covered 72 sheets of foolscap paper, wore six pencils to stubs. Last week he announced a 72-digit prime number, challenged the world to show him a bigger one. His number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prime | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...them generations old, are carved statuets of their god of medicine. He is a man who closely resembles the U. S. caricature of Bluenose the Prohibitor. He has a long nose, a high hat and European dress. Some carvings are crude, some masterpieces of wood carving. Herbert W. Krieger, National Museum curator of ethnology, noted that all obviously were intended to portray the same individual, a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bank of England God | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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