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H&FJ on typesetting large prime numbers

Hoefler & Frere-Jones explore typesetting the world’s largest prime number. The largest prime number has more than twelve million digits, and concluded that even one specific kern pair would save hundreds of feet.

Posted 2009/04/22 at 4:49pm / math / typography
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