Prime Number Challenge: First Milestone Reached!
Congratulations to all you wonderful Prime Hunters out there - you’ve smashed through the first milestone well ahead of expectation! By our count at time of writing, you’ve captured pictures of 105 primes in the world around - and no doubt that number will have grown by the time you’re reading this!
It’s with great pleasure, therefore, that I reveal to you the first clue for the Codebreaker for the first week of The Code Challenge:
ARCHIMEDES
Enter this word onto the Codebreaker to start your journey towards cracking The Code!
Some of you have also been asking about what type of photo we’ll be counting towards the Prime Number Challenge. For a bit of clarity, our main criterion is originality. By that we mean that your photos must be original content, and that they should display originality and creativity. If you’ve taken the photo, or captured the screenshot, or created the image in some other way, it’s exactly what we’re looking for. If it’s creative and inspiring, all the better. But we will not and cannot count links to pre-existing images online, or to text resources (such as the Wikipedia list of prime numbers), or to anything else that is not an original photo.
Of course, we’re using our best judgement with every submission and the above isn’t to be taken as an absolute rule, but we hope it provides some helpful information.
Now, with that out of the way, we have one message: Keep Up The Great Work! Only 200 to go! And remember if you're not on Facebook you can send your photos to [email protected].
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At 00:26 9th Sep 2011, tommytumtum wrote:this sounds like a really fun challenge. I love involving readership of a blog :).
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At 16:21 13th Sep 2011, teddymorice wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 22:07 13th Sep 2011, tommytumtum wrote:This is so fun. Over the past few days I can't help but look everywhere for prime numbers. On the count down for seconds left to cross and intersection before it changes to number of points on an object. Truly a great game.
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At 03:18 21st Sep 2011, biessisi wrote:I used to love finding prime numbers in school. There are so many really cool patterns and pictures to find out there. This would be a great art project for students.
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At 19:33 30th Sep 2011, treedah wrote:Isn't it amazing how once you get into you head that your goal is to find prime numbers everywhere you look you start trying to count objects and look for numbers without really even trying. This has been quite a fair bit of fun. My dad and I have been competing to find natural prime numbers when we hang out.
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