Prime Not Choice

So they've found a new largest prime number. According to CNN, a Michigan State student discovered it on his off-the-shelf PC.

We all know what a prime numbers is (or at least we should). The current largest prime number is:

and has well over 6 million digits. Imagine that! Now I know this is nitpicking but do you discover prime numbers or do you calculate them? Euclid proved to everyone's satisfaction that there is no largest prime. So we know that another prime number, even bigger than the one just reported, lurks out there somewhere. This latest prime was calculated using a bank of 200,000 computers distributed around the world. Folks just downloaded the prime number calculating program to their PC and let 'er rip till something turned up. Seems more like a calculation to me. (My own PC is involved in a similar distributed computing exercise as part of SETI's search for extraterrestrial life. My PC is basically performing spectral analysis on white noise collected from deep space in the hope that ET might be out there sending us recognizable RF drivel. I've analyzed 610 data units so far I'll have you know.)

Anyway, here's my own mathematical proof for the day. I can prove that the number 2 is both even and odd. Because 2 is evenly divisible by 2, that makes it even. But 2 is also prime. In fact, it is the only even prime number, which certainly makes it odd. QED.
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