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Attention math geeks! A new largest Prime Number found!

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Crusty

Crusty

Lifer
Sep 30, 2001
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Cool, earlier in the year one of my cs projects was to create a data structure that could be used to calculate the 30th Marsenne Prime. Which is 2^132049 -1

It took me just under 60 seconds to do it too.
 
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jsbush

Diamond Member
Nov 13, 2000
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Originally posted by: conjur
Can I get that in Ones, please? :D
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Yeah, lol. I wonder how long the binary equivelence of that number would be! :light:
 
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Amorphus

Diamond Member
Mar 31, 2003
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Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
Originally posted by: Amorphus
He found it with a dell :|


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Shafer ran a Dell Dimension PC with 2 gigahertz of memory and an Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! :D
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WOW! my ram only goes 266mhz... man... 2ghz memory...
well i doubt it helped with the permutations, but still... man..

ain't dell users the most intelligent and well informed?
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hah! my RAM runs at 333mhz! therefore the girth of my phallic organ is of greater substantiality than yours!
 
Kelemvor

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
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Anyone know the software that does this? Might be fun to have it running. SETI got old long ago...
 
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ReiAyanami

Diamond Member
Sep 24, 2002
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with quantum computing 10 years from now, we'll finally be able to find the very last prime number...
 
Miramonti

Miramonti

Lifer
Aug 26, 2000
28,653
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The power of distributed computing is awesome.

I once found a cure for cancer but mistakenly closed the window when in a hurry to check my email.
 
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zzzz

Diamond Member
Sep 1, 2000
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Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Anyone know the software that does this? Might be fun to have it running. SETI got old long ago...
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prime 95?

 
silverpig

silverpig

Lifer
Jul 29, 2001
27,703
12
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Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
with quantum computing 10 years from now, we'll finally be able to find the very last prime number...
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There are infinitely many primes...
 
Linux23

Linux23

Lifer
Apr 9, 2000
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Originally posted by: jjsole
The power of distributed computing is awesome.

I once found a cure for cancer but mistakenly closed the window when in a hurry to check my email.
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me too.

but in my case, Windows crashed.;)
 
Miramonti

Miramonti

Lifer
Aug 26, 2000
28,653
100
106
Originally posted by: Linux23
Originally posted by: jjsole The power of distributed computing is awesome. I once found a cure for cancer but mistakenly closed the window when in a hurry to check my email.
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me too. but in my case, Windows crashed.;)
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:p
 
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rgwalt

Diamond Member
Apr 22, 2000
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At first, I thought he was doing his own prime search and got very, very lucky. I didn't realize it was part of a distributed computing project. I'm sitting here, scratching my head wondering why a chemical engineer would want to search for primes...

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LordMagnusKain

Banned
May 10, 2001
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Originally posted by: Amorphus
Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
Originally posted by: Amorphus
He found it with a dell :|


*edit*
Shafer ran a Dell Dimension PC with 2 gigahertz of memory and an Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor
Click to expand...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! :D
Click to expand...

WOW! my ram only goes 266mhz... man... 2ghz memory...
well i doubt it helped with the permutations, but still... man..

ain't dell users the most intelligent and well informed?
Click to expand...

hah! my RAM runs at 333mhz! therefore the girth of my phallic organ is of greater substantiality than yours!
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indeed, but my ram is long (1.5gb).
 
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