European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 4 the stars and stripes thursday february 4.19bb experts find prime example of computer Power Washington up two computer scientists using what they say is the world s fastest computer announced tuesday they have found the third largest prime number two raised to the Power 110.503 minus one. The number was discovered by Walter Colquitt. A senior systems Engineer at the Houston area research Center and Luther Welsh a computer scientist from Eltoro Calif. The newly found prime number has 33,165 digits. A Pri me number by Dofi n Ilion cannot be evenly divided by any number other than itself and the number one. The new prime is equal to two raised to the Power 110,503. Minus one. Computer scientists use preliminary screening programs to Rule out Many candidate numbers but these still left Many numbers that must get a Iodious final Check for factors a process that eats up vast amounts of computer time for the huge numbers. Most of the search was conducted on an Nec Sam supercomputer dubbed Godzilla by some Welsh said. We find these by Luck absolute Luck col quilt said. The computer experts checked thou Sands of possible prime numbers Between pow ers of two that ranged from 103,001 to 924.261. The computer run that showed the new number was a True prime candidate took just Over 11 minutes and a program to verify the number As a prime took a Little Over i i hours. In thai time the Texas supercomputer went through 7.1 tril lion computer Steps. New postal chief knows it s not going to be easy Washington of Anthony m. Frank the son of iwo economists who lied nazi Germany says he knows that he faces a Tough Job As the nation s 69th postmaster general but he wants to give Back some thing to Bis adopted nation. It certainly is not going to be an easy time fran said at a news conference tuesday alter being chosen to take the top postal Job effective March l. He will succeed Preston r. Tisch who is leaving inc postal service to return to private business in new he faces a potential deficit of si.7 billion in this fiscal year despite rising postage Rales critics who want to give some postal services to private Enterprise and a huge Job managing the nation1 largest civilian employer but As president of one of the nation s largest Sav Ings Banks for the last 16 years Frank developed reputation Ai a Man Able to find innovative solutions to problems an approach he Hopes to bring to the postal , 56. Said he is taking Early retirement from Hii position As chairman and chief executive of first nationwide financial corporation to serve the nation. The Courtesy this country gave to my family and myself when we arrived front nazi Germany in 1937 is not forgotten and i would like to return Tome of that Frank said his parents both held do Clorale degrees when they fled the Naii regime. His father became a runner on Wall Street eventually rising to the level of stockbroker while his Mother became a professor at Bryn mawr College in Pennsylvania. Frank received Bachelor s and mister s degrees from Dartmouth and did postgraduate study at the univer sity of Vienna in Austria. Frank will be faced immediately with a financial crisis with recent congressional action forcing inc Agency to absorb some 11.25 billion in added easts Over the next 21 month. Rising costs could confront the postal service with deficit As High As si.7 billion in this fiscal year alone even allowing for i postal rate hike planned in the Ocul few months postal officials warned. This is a very difficult situation Frank said. But he declined to specify what actions he might late. I m not looking for Sha cups i m not looking for change for the Sake of change he said. Critics have suggested that some postal operations be Lumen Over to private business an approach loot opposed by postal officials. Asked about this idea Frank quickly Lumen Ibe discussion to recent congressional action shining my Lions of dollars in retirement costs to his Agency. I d like to think that the word Pri valuation Means that we re in control of our own finances he said. John n. Riesemer chairman of the Board of Gover Nora that oversees the Agency said about 50 people were considered for the $99, Job. Frank was selected for his management Sld i and ability to took to the future said cries Mer. He has shown an innate ability to anticipate and manage for change and to do so Success fury Aid grips Amer. Under Frank s leadership Fin nationwide grew from a relatively Small Northern California institution with assets of 1400 million to an si8.8 billion open lion with 370 offices in 14 slates. Irs addition to his 16v years with first nationwide Frank has served As chairman and vice chairman of the Federal Home loan Bank Board of san Francisco and on advisory boards of the Federal Home loan Mort Gage corporation Federal National mortgage association and National housing task Force. Mysterious red Diamond on display at smithsonian or not a Ftp i re Ingrid fire create As the 4s.s-Canwashington a a red Diamond one of Only five known in the world is sparkling under the Bright lights of its bulletproof Elass Case at the National museum of natural history after years in the shadows of obscurity. A gift to the nation from the late Boston Gem dealer s. Sydney Mcyoung the round Cut unmounted 5.03 Caral Diamond is probably Worth several million Dol Lars. But curator John Sampson while Wai shocked last october when the Diamond landed on his desk in n Small cardboard Box. It had born sent by registered mail uninsured from Deyoung s Stalc in bos ton. The Box carried is i.s3 in postage and contain cd a Jollow invoice listing the contents simply As one Large red  when he Learned of the bequest. White told report ers i expected to Sec an armoured track and a couple of armed guards pulling up one Day instead he said it is possible that we have Here a $5 million Diamond shipped in a 50-Cenl  wearing a White Cotton Glove. White twirled the Mcyoung Diamond under the Light of a High intensity desk lamp to show off the sparkling red flashes beneath us Black surface. Then he gingerly placed the Diamond in its Perma nent display Case i n the museum s Hall of gems in the Nalt Onil met cum of natural history curator John Simpson Whit show off the dry Oung junion. Company o Suc legendary great the 4s,�carat Hope Blue Diamond and the Champagne coloured Pear shaped Victoria Transvaal Diamond weighing 67.89 carats. Nothing is known about the age or history of Ibe Mcyoung Diamond Eccl its last owner. He took that information to his grave White said. Mcyoung owned the red Diamond for Many years and bequeathed it to the smithsonian institution be fore he died in 1986, White speculates that the Mcyoung Gem probably was mined in South Africa and originally was part of much larger Diamond. He said its owners probably intended to Cut the Diamond into smaller pieces for Industrial purposes until they discovered us fiery red Content and rallied its value As a precious Gem. The world s other four known red diamonds Are in private hands and their whereabouts Are unknown. One of them n purplish red Diamond weighing 0.95 carats was auctioned in new York in Panl 1987 for nearly to million making it the highest per Cal pro Ever paid for a Diamond. Thai suggests that the Mcyoung Diamond weighing More than five times As much could be Worth More than $5 million but while said he doubt that it Market value is thai High. Ivyll display Lilac Iii inv  j t he wit Jav but or suit Over mias not practical says Justice lawyer Hal his court has jurisdiction to hear the n.T, Wilt,.,T, ill i t Point enough. Brinn political a Richmond. A