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TAC NOTE: 3x+1 closes down.

Rudy Toody

Rudy Toody

Diamond Member
Nov 12, 2008 Project will soon close down
Due to a lack of time and resources, we have to close down 3x+1@home soon. On Friday, 14th November, we'll stop generating new work units but results can still be returned for a long time. Of course the project page will stay on-line for everyone to view or download (available soon) the project results. Thanks to everyone who has participated in this project!
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--TeAm AnandTech Committee
 
Major bummer. Maybe switch over to it to get us as high as possible before they close shop?
 
Now that I look at the project I think we'd be hard pressed to move up, lots of power crunching 3x+1 right now.
 
Such a shame that it closed down. We talked about 3x+1 conjecture yesterday in Discrete Mathematics. Our book mentions that the conjecture is proven as high as "5.6x10^13" (=56000000000000). I told him that they were at much higher than that, and he asked how I knew. So I explained about BOINC, the TeAm, and the 3x+1 project. Even got a few people interesting. The highest result (checked yesterday) was 2.3x10^21. 😀 I printed the result and will give to him today.
 
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