Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:43:07 05/26/05
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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. Is finding the number enough or is the prize only for people who also prove that the number they picked is a prime. Suppose one person find a number of 10,000,000 digits and claims that the number is prime with no proof and somebody else proves that the number is a prime number. who get the prize? Uri
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