Postal Meter Strip Announcing a Mersenne Prime
Postal Meter Strip Announcing a Mersenne Prime
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- Description
- Computing devices have long influenced the development of number theory, including the discovery of prime numbers. This postal meter strip is an example of the imprint used by the Mathematics Department at the University of Illinois to announce the discovery there of a new Mersenne prime. This particular postal meter strip example was never used in the mail.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Postal Meter Strip
- date made
- 1975
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Urbana
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.1 cm x 10.6 cm x 3.4 cm; 1/32 in x 4 3/16 in x 1 11/32 in
- ID Number
- 1999.3080.02
- nonaccession number
- 1999.3080
- catalog number
- 1999.3080.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of Prof. Paul T. Bateman
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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