Ben Schumacher (whose SUV has the number plate QUBIT) has a fascinating link on his blog, to a pastiche of Poe’s “Raven” that is also a mnemonic for the first 740 digits of pi.

In other math news, a new largest-ever prime has been unearthed. It has 9,808,358 digits. According to the website, you can download them all to check for yourself that the thing is prime… but my attempts to do the download have so far all failed. You can also order a poster that has all 9,808,358 digits printed on it. Real small.