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  The Largest Known prime by Year: A Brief History
Mersenne Numbers, were the focus of most of the early searches for large primes.
BS96, p309]) include the primes 999999000001 (1851, "found" by Looff) and 6728042130721 (1 Jan. 1855, Clausen) in their tables.
As the more recent primes have been found our estimate for finding a 10 million digit prime has been slowly decreasing and finding such a prime in 2006 seems very likely.
primes.utm.edu /notes/by_year.html   (1283 words)

  
  Prime - definition from Biology-Online.org
Prime-vertical dial, a dial in which the shadow is projected on the plane of the prime vertical.
Prime-vertical transit instrument, a transit instrument the telescope of which revolves in the plane of the prime vertical, used for observing the transit of stars over this circle.
To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Prime   (502 words)

  
 np3
This would also strongly suggest that the famous twin prime hypothesis (unproven) that the set of twin primes is infinite, is directly tied up with the twin nature of the prime number system itself, which is both horizontal (quantitative) and vertical (qualitative).
This then implies that the vertical prime number system (as qualities) is infinite, for an infinite natural number made up from a finite set of prime quantities, would require an infinite number of prime factors.
Even though the existence of any particular prime number cannot be guaranteed yet where large groups are involved, predictive accuracy greatly increases so that the bigger the set of natural numbers involved, the more accurate can be the predictions regarding the amount of prime numbers contained therein.
www.iol.ie /~peter/np3.html   (4177 words)

  
 Topographical Engineers -- Observations
Observations should be made on several stars crossing the prime vertical near the zenith, and the mean of the results taken for the true latitude.
Place the artificial horizon where the meridian and prime vertical are visible from thirty degrees altitude to the zenith.
Keeping the plane of the sextant truly vertical, with a sweep of the index with his left hand, twice the angle of elevation of the star, he will bring also into the field of view its image, as reflected from the index mirror.
www.topogs.org /camp.htm   (2900 words)

  
 prime vertical - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Prime Numbers, integers greater than 1 that are not the products of the multiplication of any combination of positive integers other than themselves...
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 Prime (symbol) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In molecular biology, the prime is used to denote the positions of carbon on a ring of deoxyribose or ribose.
The prime can also be used in the transliteration of some languages, such as Russian, to denote palatalization.
When the character set used does not include the prime or double prime character (e.g., ISO 8859-1 is commonly assumed on IRC), they are often respectively approximated by normal or italic apostrophes and quotation marks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_(symbol)   (640 words)

  
 Vertical - definition from Biology-Online.org
(Science: astronomy) Vertical angle, an angle measured on a vertical circle, called an angle of elevation, or altitude, when reckoned from the horizon upward, and of depression when downward below the horizon.
(Science: botany) Vertical anthers The plane passing through the point of sight, and perpendicular to the ground plane, and also to the picture.
Vertical steam engine, a steam engine having the crank shaft vertically above or below a vertical cylinder.
www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Vertical   (203 words)

  
 prime vertical definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
prime vertical definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
Search for "prime vertical" in all of MSN Encarta
Everest: Beyond the Limit on the Discovery Channel
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 Personal Sensitive Points - Astrology in the Age of Aquarius
The Prime Vertical is divided equally into 12 sections, and great Semicircles are drawn from due North to due South cutting the Prime vertical half way along their paths.
All Houses are 30 degrees in length along the Prime Vertical, though this is not the case along the Ecliptic, (except in a couple of very rare instances).
The points of intersection of the Prime Vertical and the Ecliptic occur at the Antivertex and the Vertex.
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Vertical or overhead cracks usually require sealing the surface with an epoxy gel to insure that the resin doesn’t run out before it cures.
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The liquid at one end is brought to the level at that point, and the vertical distance of the point at the other end of the tube is the difference between the level of the liquid (the same level as the first point) and the end of the tube.
Determining differences of elevation by indirect means, e.g., (a) vertical angles and horizontal distances (trigonometric leveling), (b) deriving altitudes from values of atmospheric pressure measured with a barometer (barometric altimetry), or (c) deriving altitudes from values of the boiling point of water determined with a hypsometer (thermometric altimetry).
A leveling instrument in which the line of sight is kept horizontal (to within several minutes of the vertical), regardless of the orientation of the vertical axis of the instrument by having the line of sight reflect from the free surface of a pool of mercury within the instrument.
www.ngs.noaa.gov /PUBS_LIB/GEOID/Droman_papers/glossary/xml/L.xml   (7312 words)

  
 Clinton's planets world map
are included on the map.  The prime verical is the line that crosses directly overhead at his birth place in Arkansa and is running due east and west where it eventually converges with the equator and horizon circles.
  It is the intersection of the prime vertical and meridian that forms the cross of the natal chart which we also see in the Medicine Wheel.
If you were to analyse the placement of the prime vertical on Bill Clinton's natal map, you would notice that traveling toward the east there is a cluster of planets.
www.homestead.com /rahelio/Clintons_Planets_worldmap.html   (312 words)

  
 GEODETIC REFERENCE SYSTEMS
The Radius of Curvature in the Prime Vertical
Theorem of Meusnier: The radius of curvature of an inclined section is equal to the radius of curvature of a normal section times the cosine of the angle between the sections.
In this case, we need to compute the radius of curvature of the prime vertical from the radius of curvature of the inclined section (parallel of latitude).
surveying.wb.psu.edu /sur351/georef/ellip3.htm   (473 words)

  
 Prime Engineering, Inc. Atlanta Georgia
Prime Engineering designed and permitted the 210’ span bridge over CSX Railroad, Norfolk-Southern Railroad, and MARTA in less than 3 months in order to maintain federal funding.
Prime involved CSX, Norfolk-Southern, MARTA, and Georgia Department of Transportation early in the design phase and maintained their commitment to the project in order to expedite permitting.
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 7. The prime table
The forth prime is 5, and the fifth prime is 7.
The five is indeed a prime and can't ‘lie’.
78 corresponds with the sum of the primes in the sequence from 1 till 22:
members.home.nl /frankcolijn/frankcolijn/7._The_prime_table.htm   (1251 words)

  
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The east-west vertical plane is represented by the PRIME VERTICAL STONE.
The small passageway between the Prime Vertical Sone and the MERIDIAN STONE comprises the Equinoctial Passage.
The meridian plane is vertical precisely in the north-south direction, and is marked in Sunstones II by the MERIDIAN STONE.
kirstenmichel.com /ss2.html   (840 words)

  
 Puzzle 120. Primal Squares
The mentioned symmetry is respect both the horizontal and the vertical symmetry axis of the square.
The center cell plus each of the four cells touching it sum to four consecutive odd numbers, but one of those must be divisible by 3, so it can't be prime, unless it is 3.
The sum of this number with the number at the distance y in from the opposite edge must also be prime.
www.primepuzzles.net /puzzles/puzz_120.htm   (1072 words)

  
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The deflections are expressed in two components: the "North-South" component, known as deflection of the vertical in the meridian, represented by the Greek character, "Xi"; and the "East-West" component, known as deflection of the vertical in the prime vertical, represented by the Greek letter, "Eta".
A positive prime-vertical component of deflection of the vertical (Eta) indicates that the astronomic longitude will fall to the east of the corresponding geodetic longitude of the point.
Future deflection of the vertical grids from the National Geodetic Survey will be using more sophisticated techniques to obtain better estimates of surface deflections of the vertical.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov /seg/cdroms/Grav_94/grids/geoid93/deflec93.txt   (896 words)

  
 Manufacturing Capabilities
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 Stichting 'De Koepel' - Deflections of the vertical in The Netherlands
Since the moments of vertical transit are determined visually, a (systematic) time error is introduced in the measurements due to the inability of the observer to determine the exact instant at which a star crosses the wires of the reticle.
, is in the plane of the prime vertical.
The local vertical (or plumb-line) is in the direction of the vector sum of the acceleration due to the Earth’s gravitational field and the apparent acceleration due to the rotation of the Earth around its axis.
www.dekoepel.nl /Geodetic-Astronomy.html   (1550 words)

  
 UNESCO Training Module on GIS - Module B-3
Between the prime meridian and the 180o meridian are lines of west longitude (west of the prime meridian) and the lines of east longitude (east of the prime meridian).
First of all, there is the difference between the vertical (the line perpendicular to the sea-level surface) and the ellipsoidal normal (the line perpendicular to the spheroid).
N is the radius of curvature in the prime vertical.
ioc.unesco.org /Oceanteacher/OceanTeacher2/other/GISModules/module_b/module_b3.html   (2002 words)

  
 Terminology:
Azimuth, the arc of the horizon between the elevated Pole and a vertical circle through the center of the object.
The latitude is the angular distance of a place on the Earth's surface North or South of the equator, measured upwards and downwards.
A heavenly body is on the prime vertical when it bears east or west.
www.math.sfu.ca /histmath/Special/Terminology.htm   (832 words)

  
 Geodetic Models for the Earth
The are defined as the arc distance in the plane of the meridian from the equatorial plane to the prime vertical.
Prime vertical is a radius of the great circle that is perpendicular to the meridian passing through an observer's station.
Elevation is the vertical distance from a reference surface to the observer's station.
surveying.wb.psu.edu /sur162/control/surfaces.htm   (1123 words)

  
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They were shown either horizontal or vertical primes, and then responded to questions about time using either earlier than/later than (spatially neutral) or before/after (horizontal metaphor).
Results: All were faster after a horizontal prime in the before/after (horizontal metaphor) condition.
In the spatially neutral questions (earlier than/later than) Mandarin speakers were faster after a vertical prime, indicating that they think about time vertically as a default, whereas English speakers still responded faster after the horizontal prime.
www.pitt.edu /~meaning/boroditskysummary.doc   (537 words)

  
 The 2002 NASS Conference
John Schilke’s presentation Oh, East Is East and West is West was a note on the Prime Vertical, that great circle which passes through the zenith and nadir and the east and west points of the horizon.
The Prime Vertical is thus orthogonal to the meridian and to the horizon.
Unfortunately the Prime Vertical is only available for the sun for half the year, when the declination is the same sign and smaller than the latitude.
sundials.org /conference/2002/2002conf.htm   (2510 words)

  
 DEFLEC99   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The deflection of the vertical is the departure of a plumb bob's true pointing from the ellipsoidal normal direction.
Deflections are used to relate the orientation of a locally-leveled instrument, such as a theodolite, to a spatial reference system.
Important uses are corrections to zenith distance (vertical angle) measurements, and the conversion between astronomic and ellipsoidal azimuths (the Laplace correction).
www.ngs.noaa.gov /GEOID/DEFLEC99   (167 words)

  
 Game Basics
3.0 The vertical prime is performed by retracting the outstretched fist back towards the players’ shoulder (players must face each other and perform the prime with arms parallel).
Use of the "vertical paper" (sometimes referred to as "the handshake") is considered exceptionally bad form.
While this gesture is seen in other circles as good manners to thank your opponent for the match, it is important to note that this action should not be expected or required in RPS, due to the fact that in general a "Handshake" is used as "deal sealer" between two parties.
www.worldrps.com /gbasics.html   (2154 words)

  
 VERTICAL
Vertical will once again be exhibiting at the New York Comic Con, April 18-20, 2008.
Vertical published the 3-volume To Terra… in 2007 and a successful animated version of the trilogy ran in Japan in 2007 to great acclaim.
Vertical began publishing Takemiya’s noteworthy Andromeda Stories toward the end of 2007, and the final volume of the 3-volume space-spanning soap opera is due in March.
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 Conics (PRIME)
First, we may choose our plane to have a greater angle to the vertical than does the generator of the cone, in which case the plane must cut right through one of the nappes.
Second, our plane may have exactly the same angle to the vertical axis as the generator of the cone, so that it is parallel to the side of the cone.
Finally, the plane may have a smaller angle to the vertical axis (that is, the plane is steeper than the generator), in which case the plane will cut both nappes of the cone.
www.mathacademy.com /pr/prime/articles/conics/index.asp   (2207 words)

  
 glossary: parallax to Pythagoras
the "vertical circle" passing through the center of the Earth and perpendicular to the horizon (the definition of a vertical circle) that also passes through the east and west points on the horizon.
The Prime Vertical is also perpendicular to the Meridian: the vertical circle passing through the north and south points on the horizon.
The horizon and Meridian planes quarter the local sky, and form the 12 houses when trisected by planes perpendicular to the Prime Vertical and passing through the horizon’s north - south line (see diagram on page 151).
www.myastrologybook.com /glossary-parallax-Pythagoras.htm   (1025 words)

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