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2147483647.

What's the significance of this number? Wiki knows -

The number 2,147,483,647 is the eighth Mersenne prime, equal to (2^31) − 1. It is one of only four known double Mersenne primes.

The primality of this number was proven by Leonhard Euler, who reported the proof in a letter to Daniel Bernoulli written in 1772. Euler used trial division, improving on Cataldi's method, so that at most 372 divisions were needed. The number 2,147,483,647

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18360101 14:18:41

When the sound of the wagon was close enough to the cabin to be heard, Daron placed his patch of knitted yarn upon the table and took station at the window, standing to the side of it and peering around it to keep watch. He kept his stance in tense focus as the wagon drew near. His mind raced over what to do with the possibilities of who could possibly be arriving, and what to say. He'd have the deed ready for proof of ownership. He'd have ...

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18380221 18:03:30

"The very idea seems preposterous and repugnant." Frederic now sat upright on the edge of his seat and glared at Daron. "I fail to see how you would be able to get this to happen without having all of your people being overrun by sin in short time. Who would you propose to even oversee this kind of operation? You? Is this something you would do?"
"Me? Nah, I know I ain't got it in me. When I had to take care ...

About two hours into the shift the traffic is starting to pick up as normal. I have a corral filled and set in a direction ready to go, and I'm standing at the front of it after just putting a few on top. An old woman of at least seventy brings her cart to the back end of the line I have set up and places her cart separately next to the line rather than add it to the line which I have. "Ma'am, can you please do me a favor and put that cart with the rest of these?" She looks over to the ...

I confess that I have nothing to say now and that I am completely distracted and out of time to write anything of substance.

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Pressed for time at the moment, but I want to start this to get something down and work on it.

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19361225 15:44:33

"So one of the first uses for this kind of metallic fiber is that we can line the inside of tires with it so that they're stronger."
"Oh."
Ashland nodded and smiled with a sense of pride and accomplishment in the development and being able to share it with Mary. Out of the corner of her eye, ...

I had abnormal difficulty in sleeping this past night and work was rather tortuous, particularly in the morning half. When I sat for lunch, I froze in paralysis for more than five minutes. Yet again I am distracted to wit's end and cannot focus on anything with any effective purpose.

I've tried to think of something to write here and I simply cannot think of anything that resonates within me at the moment. I have ideas, yeah, but nothing is sounding like it is properly flowing from ...

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18351225 02:56:11

The wheezing stopped, leaving the wind scraping against the roof to be the only noise they heard inside the cabin over their breathing. Jesse rocked in place and still succumbed to an inadvertent cough while finally regaining the last bits of his composure. Daron kneaded his hands and curled his lips over the repulsive sensation of blood congealing in his hands - he still was unsure if the blood was his or Whitney's, but knew that he couldn't ...

And just like that, I am done with a year's worth of updates to the tax code for purposes of my project.

While I did foresee the changes with MAP-21 being extensive, I wasn't quite prepared for the amount of very minor changes in store. One such change requires the use of the statement "upon retirement" to be stricken from the code and replaced with "by reason of retirement". It seems like it refers to the same point of time to me - the point of time when retirement ...

Public Law 112-141 is known as MAP-21 and is a generally large bill which covers numerous revisions about transportation funding and the like. One part about the tax code which continuously gets updated are provisions in the fuel excise tax and Transportation Trust Funds which extend deadlines and periods of applicability. The problem that I've had with this is that each incremental update for these dates were always a mere few months with each new bill passed, and in one case which I've updated ...

I cannot focus on anything at all today. I am so worn and spent that I just sit here reading bullshit and not even notice the time flying by. Everything is worn and exasperating.

My retail work experience transpired like this. 7AM I'm in, and I'm scheduled alone until the next person comes in at 130PM. This means that whenever I take a lunch, the lot will have none of us out there fetching. I volunteer to take my lunch earlier than later so that I'm gone and back when there's the ...

After a scant few hours of starting the tax code work yesterday I've already encountered several interesting changes and one substantial addition.

Check out the new §6116:

(a) In general
Not later than September 15, 2012, and annually thereafter, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the head of any State agency charged with the responsibility for administration of prisons shall provide to the Secretary in electronic format a list with the information ...

I think I'll need to put the ES drafts on the side and start work on OneLine Tax Code once again. I'm almost a year behind in updates, and I anticipate it will take some effort for me to catch up. Maybe doing this will help spur some interest in tax research again to facilitate me eventually getting through Form 1120 Software Development and brace for 2012's 1040. Public Law 112-40 is dated as of October 2011. I have some work to do.

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Received an annual evaluation today at the retail job. Two years. Despite the effusive praise listed on the document, my actual "grade" as put into the system was the average 3 out of 5. The write-up lists me as one of the best employees in the facility and mentions little in the way of negative aspects to improve, yet I'm Average Overall. I get that it requires effort and justification to give someone a superlative grade, but would it be that difficult to match that assessment with what ...

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18351225 02:44:09

Daron and Jesse slept peacefully while being watched over in pensive study. The difference was that in this night, there was wine served with the Christmas meal, and alcohol wasn't consumed by either of the men since they had arrived here in October. Whitney assumed from Daron's age and physique that he would be more susceptible to the drink than he would be, and his suspicion seemed to be holding true at the present moment. He gingerly crept ...