I was interviewed on TV about GIMPS M43 discovery! [Archive]

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Digital Parasite

01-09-2006, 10:28 AM

Hi everyone, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.cbc.ca/) News interviewed me on Friday about the discovery of M43, the current 9.1 million digit world record prime in GIMPS. Ars TPR member ma9mwah was nice enought to encode their low-quality web version of the interview into WMV format for me.

If you are interested you can see it here: http://tinyurl.com/8kkcn

Jeff.

CaptainMooseInc

01-09-2006, 12:56 PM

In the words of Peter Griffin: Shweeettttt

birdman2584

01-09-2006, 01:03 PM

That is pretty cool. Congrats on your 15 seconds of fame!:clap:

edorajh

01-09-2006, 01:03 PM

That's cool! :thumbs:

Bok

01-09-2006, 01:21 PM

Fame!

:thumbs:

Bok

PS2pcGAMER

01-09-2006, 01:29 PM

That's seriously pretty cool :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Shish

01-09-2006, 10:27 PM

Nice one DP.
Enjoy whatever fame you can.

LAURENU2

01-10-2006, 12:55 AM

:thumbs: You must have been proud that they picked you to do it
But What no Plug for our team? :cry:

Digital Parasite

01-10-2006, 10:14 AM

Sorry, wasn't able to plug the team :cry: . Speaking of which lauren, have you had a chance to visit the post office yet? :D

I guess the M43 news has been spreading more. I was called by another producer and this morning on the CBC Ontario (provincial-wide) radio show I did a live radio interview. That was pretty crazy, being so early in the morning, I hope I was awake enough to make sense. :smoking:

I was proud to be selected but not suprised since I was one of the two people who ran an official verification of the number to confirm it was prime. Since I am the only Canadian in that group of people, it made sense for them to talk to me, lucky for me, hehe.

LAURENU2

01-10-2006, 12:57 PM

Yes I did I tried ups but they said you prob. would have to pay 35.00 on your side But they said if I just used USPS it might just come to you duty free
I posted it on 1/3 Sorry for the delay it is a madhouse here at our around Xmas

Digital Parasite

01-10-2006, 03:42 PM

USPS should be fine. No problem at all.

Moogie

01-10-2006, 06:02 PM

That is awesome!!!! Congrats, well done!

Jeff

01-10-2006, 07:30 PM

Wow... very well spoken you are. :cheers:

Digital Parasite

01-10-2006, 08:06 PM

Thanks everyone. The radio interview was early in the morning so I wasn't as fast or coherent at responding but the clip in MP3 format is here if you are interested: http://tinyurl.com/96n94