2008-05-30

fivemack: (Default)
2008-05-30 12:09 am

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echo "3o 185203545384014444998415700339182963094565346115682981302539679248192554448695865898272140289 14324129286424100231861565705311821806023066083407911748417199121054089089998098987789407767132602369 100512627347897906177 12079910333441 22320686081 134382593 *****p" | dc

A month of sieving on two dozen distributed computers and a 450-hour sequential calculation here.
fivemack: (Default)
2008-05-30 03:41 pm

Recent terminology change

When did they start calling deployed photoelectric power sources on spacecraft 'solar wings' rather than 'solar panels'?

I suppose they are very occasionally actually used as wings, but the only example I can think of it aerobraking into orbit around Mars.