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UCLA discovers 13-million-digit prime
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Mathematicians at UCLA have bragging rights now that they’ve discov
ered a 13-million-digit prime number the 46th known Mersenne
prime.
The formula for the new number is (2P -1), where P equals
43,112,609, also a prime number.
“We’re delighted,” said UCLA’s Edson Smith, who led the effort. “Now we’re look
ing for the next one, despite the odds.”
Thousands globally participate in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or
GIMPS, and the odds that any given number is a Mersenne prime is about one in
150,000. This is the eighth discovered by UCLA.
NOTED. A Los Angeles man faces charges
of stealing a Dodger’s uniform from the sta
dium and walked on the field, posing as one
of the team players.
The 47-year-old man pleaded not guilty to
his criminal charges, which include burglary
and trespassing.
Prosecutors say that after the incident, the uni
form was found in the bat boy’s locker room.
TODAY
Tar Heel Tech Fair: Represent
atives from Information Technology
Services will answer questions and
present information about tech
support, networking, music down
loads, security, wireless printing
and more.
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: The Pit
Art showing: The N.C. Crafts
Gallery will host "A Diversity of
Paintings" by 4 Art Women: Betty
Tyler, Antje Shiflett, Tracey Huley
and Tommie Griffin.
Time: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: 212 W. Main St.
Writing seminar: The Writing
Center will instruct students
and staff on the writing process.
Register online at www.unc.edu/
depts/wcweb/event.html.
Time: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Student Academic
Services Building
Sustainability social: This event
will both give UNC staff, faculty,
students, and Chapel Hill residents
the opportunity to discuss sustain-
QUOTED. “To my right is Gov. Mike
Huckabee.”
University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, speaking
of Gov. Mike Beebe, who got him confused with
his similarly named Republican predecessor.
Slipups are common when officials intro
duce Democrat Beebe, though the men don’t
look alike.
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ability efforts in the Carolina com
munity. It will also provide an infor
mal opportunity for sustainability
leaders to come together and speak
with students interested in getting
involved in sustainability initiatives
in the area.
Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Faculty Lounge, Campus Y
Club meeting: The Sociology Club
will be holding its first informa
tional meeting. All those interested
in joining or being informed about
the club are invited to attend,
regardless of major. For more
information, e-mail Amy Lucas at
aelucas@email.unc.edu.
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Hamilton 151
Open mic: Blue Horn Lounge
will host an open-mic night for its
members. For more information, call
929-1511.
Time: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Location: 125 E. Franklin St.
FRIDAY
Art exhibit: The Carrboro Branch
Library will host its First Juried
Painting Exhibition. For more infor-
News
mation, call 969-3006.
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: McDougle School Media
Center
Premier concert: N.C. Jazz
Repertory Orchestra will hold the
world premier of composition "10
x 10" by jazz pianist Kenny Werner
with soloists James Ketch on trum
pet and Stephen Anderson on piano.
Admission is $lO for students,
faculty and staff, and S2O for the
general public.
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Location: Memorial Hall
Music: Cat's Cradle will host singer/
songwriters Mason Jennings and
Zach Gill. For more information, call
967-9053.
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: 300 E. Main St.
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The Carolina Challenge is an annual business and
social venture competition. This new and innovative
contest will enable those with great ideas or an
entrepreneurial drive to battle it out for a chance to win
a piece of at least $50,000 in prize money.
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Interest sessions
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Dinner will be provided.
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■ A Chapel Hill man was arrest
ed Saturday after police found him
in a downtown restaurant after
hours with an alcoholic beverage,
according to Chapel Hill police
reports.
Police responded to an alarm
call just before 5 a.m. from Spunky’s
Restaurant at 101 E. Franklin St.,
reports state.
They found Barry Nelson
McCoy, 56 of 100 W. Rosemary
St., inside the restaurant drink
ing alcohol, according to police
reports.
He faces a charge of felony
breaking and larceny, according
to reports.
Reports state he was confined
at Orange County Jail in lieu of
$1,500 bail and is expected in
court Monday.
■ Someone broke into a car
parked in a Chapel Hill lot and
stole S2OO worth of equipment,
according to Chapel Hill police
reports.
Reports state that the window of a
car parked on Chapel Hill Boulevard
was broken Friday and a GPS unit
and radar detector removed.
The break-in, done with a blunt
object, also caused damage to the
broken driver’s side window of the
2005 Suzuki Forenza, according to
police reports.
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I now in protest against the ban by merely throwing
a. them on the sidewalks, etc. It’s just human nature,
especially with the younger generation... that many young peo
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POLICE LOG
■ Someone who was intoxicat
ed fell off the roof of a Pritchard
Avenue home early Saturday,
according to Chapel Hill police
reports.
■ Chapel Hill police attempted
to rescue a deer from a volleyball
net Saturday, according to Chapel
Hill police reports.
Reports state that the animal
was stuck in a net near a North
Estes Drive church.
■ Someone stole a scooter from
the mayor of Carrboro, according
to Carrboro police reports.
Mark Hayes Chilton, 37, report
ed a white and orange scooter
missing from his Ashe Street
driveway Thursday, according to
reports.
Chilton told police that the keys
were not in the scooter so someone
must have walked it or put it in a
vehicle, reports state.
■ Someone found three dogs
running at-large and reported
to police that two of the dogs
were underweight, according to
Carrboro police reports.
The owner told police that one
of the dogs is old and that the
other is overactive, according to
reports.
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