Re: [math-fun] More innumeracy in high places

=Thane Plambeck At the ams.org, and many other places (including GIMPS), the phrase "The Largest Known Prime" is used repeatedly. There must be some other way to report Mersenne prime progress without using this unfortunate phrase, which finds itself into the media and can be easily misconstrued as "Largest Prime Found."

The news is actually about a new level of human mathematical achievement, rather than the math itself. Phrases like "Largest Known Prime" muddle these domains, much as "Smallest Uninteresting Number" does. A headline like "Prime Number Record Broken" would be more apt (and more exciting). "Prime Bites Dog! News at Eleven..."