Postal Meter Strip Announcing a Mersenne Prime
date: label: date made
content: 1975
notes: label: Description
content: Computing devices have long influenced the development of number theory, including the discovery of prime numbers. This postal meter strip is an example of the imprint used by the Mathematics Department at the University of Illinois to announce the discovery there of a new Mersenne prime. This particular postal meter strip example was never used in the mail.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Urbana
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Prof. Paul T. Bateman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.3080.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 1999.3080
label: catalog number
content: 1999.3080.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Postal Meter Strip
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 10.6 cm x 3.4 cm; 1/32 in x 4 3/16 in x 1 11/32 in