12 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
2,305,843,008,139,952,128 is the Greatest Perfect Number ...
230(231-1) ... is the greatest perfect number known at present, and probably the greatest that ever will be discovered; for; as they are merely curious without being useful, it is not likely that any person will attempt to find a number beyond it. 1 
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notes231-1 = 2147483647 is a prime number, and a number on which this number relies. The prime number is the largest value for a 32-bit signed integer. Barlow believed no prime greater than this would be discovered as there was no point.
01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
Examples of Digital Freedom Rhetoric
Digital freedom, of the monetary and First Amendment varieties, may in retrospect have become our era’s version of Manifest Destiny, our Turner thesis. Embracing digital freedom was an exaltation, a kind of noble calling. In a smart essay in the journal Fast Capitalism in 2005, Jack Shuler shows how similar the rhetoric of the 1990s digital frontier was to that of the 19th-century frontier era. It’s a short jump from John L. O’Sullivan in 1839—“The far-reaching, the boundless wi...Folksonomies: wild wild web
Folksonomies: wild wild web
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notesA great selection of examples of arguments for online digital freedom from some of the better minds of the 1990s.
