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Landon Curt Noll

Landon Curt Noll is a mathematics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Landon Curt Noll rather than just read about it. In short: Landon Curt Noll (born October 28, 1960) is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled at Hayward High School and concurrently at California State University, Hayward. Biography Noll was born in Walnut Creek, California, United States.

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Reference excerpt

Landon Curt Noll (born October 28, 1960) is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled at Hayward High School and concurrently at California State University, Hayward.

Biography Noll was born in Walnut Creek, California, United States. At age 18, he became the youngest person to break the record for the largest known prime. He has held or co-held the record three times. He is also the co-inventor (with John Horton Conway) of a system for naming arbitrarily large powers of 10. He also helped start the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, and is a co-inventor of the Fowler Noll Vo hash function. He was also a member of the Amdahl Six team (John S. Brown, Bodo Parady, Curt Landon Noll, Gene W. Smith, Joel F. Smith, and Sergio E. Zarantonello) which discovered another record prime in 1989; this prime remains unusual as a record large prime as it was not a Mersenne prime. Noll is an amateur astronomer. His work includes measuring the Solar parallax during the 2004 Transit of Venus as well as the search for Vulcanoid asteroids. He was also involved in politics as a Sunnyvale, California city council member and vice-mayor.

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External links Landon Curt Noll's home page Noll Primer Prover Bio Amdahl Six How High can you count? International Obfuscated C Code Contest Fowler Noll Vo hash

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Landon Curt Noll

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Landon Curt Noll ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Landon Curt Noll

In research: Landon Curt Noll appears in mathematics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Landon Curt Noll in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Landon Curt Noll is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1960 births, 20th-century American mathematicians, 21st-century American mathematicians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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