Marcus Kazmierczak

Google Math Problems

Date: Jul 29, 2004

A mysterious billboard appeared on 101-southbound which I passed each day to work. The billboard said:


{ the first 10-digit prime in consecutive digits of e }.com


I passed by the billboard numerous times before I realized it wasn’t an advertisement for a company, it wasn’t touting some servers new ability, it was actually a question. A problem to be solved. As I’ve shown before I’m always up for a good problem, I got right on it.

Read on, includes how I solved the problems and the scripts used to do so.