» About     » Archive     » Cast     » Authors     » Submit     » Search     » Random     » Statistics     » Forum     » FAQ     » Video Game     » RSS Feed     Updates daily

No. 5772:

First | Previous | 2024-12-07 | Next | Latest

First | Previous | 2024-12-07 | Next | Latest

Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=5772

Rescued from a corrupted hard drive by: David Morgan-Mar

The author writes:

I got an interesting email from a Professor Sharon Yarbury at the Faculty of Mathematics at Cambridge University. She said she was curious about the number that appears in the background of strip #5760 and idly plugged it into her quantum factorisation program, only to discover that is a new prime number that wasn't previously known.

Apparently this is a big deal or something, and now she wants to know how I found it. But I'm in two minds about revealing my incidental background number writing methods.

(Vague hint: It involves a couple of martinis and a dartboard.)