Can you write the new prime on your wall.

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Apparently a new prime number is being validated. It is just under 10 million digits long. My officemate and I were wondering how big that was. So we decided to see if it would be possible to write it out on the walls in our office. Using what appears to be Courier 10 we can fit 16 characters accross in an inch, and and 8 lines in an inch. Given the fact that our office is 140x115 that means we have a 510 inches per revolution around our office.

510 in * 16 char = 8169 chars/rev
1e7 chars / 8169 chars/rev = 1224.14 revs
1224.14 revs / 8 revs/vertical inch = 153 inches in needed height.

Our office is only 108 inches high. So we're close to 4 feet short.

That's a lot of numbers.