Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:23:55 05/26/05
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On May 26, 2005 at 15:57:20, Sune Fischer wrote: >On May 26, 2005 at 15:54:18, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On May 26, 2005 at 15:52:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On May 26, 2005 at 14:18:37, Sune Fischer wrote: >>> >>>>On May 26, 2005 at 13:15:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>> >>>>>On May 26, 2005 at 12:02:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>>>[snip] >>>>>>Hello, i can calculate prime numbers up to 10 million digits at my pc nearly, >>>>>>though not within 5 minutes. >>>>> >>>>>Less than a second, I imagine. >>>> >>>>That's quite an imagination since there aren't any known primes that large :) >> >>I misread the statement as "finding the first ten million primes" >> >>>>Last I checked only a handful or so had been found with more than a million >>>>digits, and of course only through weeks of massively parallel super computer >>>>power. >>> >>>From: >>>http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm >>> >>>The record is: >>>7,816,230 digits >> >>There is $100,000 for finding a ten million digit prime. >>In addition to the joy of making a mathematical discovery, you might win some >>cash. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is offering a $100,000 award to the >>first person or group to discover a ten million digit prime number! See how >>GIMPS will distribute this award if we are lucky enough to find a ten million >>digit prime. > >Right. >As I said not something Vincent could do in 1 sec ;) A real money making opportunity then. There are 86,400 seconds in a day.
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