On 24th January 2025 my PC discovered a prime number large enough to be listed on PrimePages. The prime number is 3045 · 22129650 + 1, and you can see more details on this PrimePages link. The number has 641093 digits, so it’s not a megaprime (at least one million decimal digits). When it was added, it had an… Continue reading My First Large Prime Number
Category: Personal History
Links to the Past: World of IQ
World of IQ was a puzzle website that became defunct around the year 2011. The archived link to the main page of worldofiq.co.cc can be accessed using the Wayback Machine. I briefly mentioned the World of IQ website in my Cerebrals Society post. It was during my early days in US that I participated in… Continue reading Links to the Past: World of IQ
Links to the Past: Cerebrals Society Contests
Vreau astă seară să plătesc Cu amintiri din viața mea. Gheorghe Dinica – Sunt vagabondul vieții mele Cerebrals Society is a defunct high IQ society. I was not a member of the society, but I participated in the contests held by the society in 2009 and 2010. The website of the society is also defunct,… Continue reading Links to the Past: Cerebrals Society Contests
My Y-DNA Haplogroup and Subclade: J2
In a previous post I talked about my autosomal DNA results from Family Tree DNA. At the end of that post I mentioned that I will write a future post about my Y-DNA (paternal) and mtDNA (maternal) test results. I actually got into DNA testing because I wanted to find out to which haplogroups I… Continue reading My Y-DNA Haplogroup and Subclade: J2
Romanian FamilyTreeDNA myOrigins Results
In this post I want to share my FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) myOrigins results. If you want to learn more about the FTDNA ethnicity estimates, you should read this page (the page talks about the update to version 3 of myOrigins) and this page (myOrigins Version 3.0 population clusters). Before I show my ethnic breakdown, I should… Continue reading Romanian FamilyTreeDNA myOrigins Results