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2006-01-04 7:22 PM

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Largest Prime Number Discovered

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/04/largest.prime.number.ap/index.html



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2006-01-04 8:33 PM
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TriComet - 2006-01-04 7:22 PM

Largest Prime Number Discovered

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/04/largest.prime.number.ap/index.html

The only math that comes to mind is the cha-ching of tax dollars at work.  Yipee.

2006-01-04 8:53 PM
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"We're super excited," said Boone, a chemistry professor. "We've been looking for such a number for a long time."HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! just sayin'
2006-01-04 10:41 PM
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How do they know if they let the computers run for a few more years they won't find a bigger one? Technically speaking numbers are infinite right? I'm not really into math, but it seems to me that it is just the biggest known prime number not the biggest prime number right?
2006-01-04 11:28 PM
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Yes, it's more about computers than math. 

piggpen35 - 2006-01-04 8:41 PM

How do they know if they let the computers run for a few more years they won't find a bigger one? Technically speaking numbers are infinite right? I'm not really into math, but it seems to me that it is just the biggest known prime number not the biggest prime number right?
2006-01-05 6:01 AM
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piggpen35 - 2006-01-04 11:41 PM
... but it seems to me that it is just the biggest known prime number not the biggest prime number right?

 

That's what the article says, in the first sentence.

2006-01-05 7:20 AM
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I will be more impressed when the get towards a googol plex.  Oh how I love Carl Sagan!!
2006-01-05 7:43 AM
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Motivated - 2006-01-04 9:33 PM

The only math that comes to mind is the cha-ching of tax dollars at work. Yipee.

 

Karl--where'd you see anything about htis being a tax-payer funded program? I had heard this was a distributed computing project...tons of volunteers running a program on the personal computers. If there is a grant involved, I'd expect it would be miniscule.

Hooray for basic research! 

2006-01-05 7:50 AM
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Motivated - 2006-01-04 9:33 PM

The only math that comes to mind is the cha-ching of tax dollars at work. Yipee.

 

Karl--where'd you see anything about htis being a tax-payer funded program? I had heard this was a distributed computing project...tons of volunteers running a program on the personal computers. If there is a grant involved, I'd expect it would be miniscule.

Hooray for basic research! 



yay for distributed computing! (it continues to break every RSA challange)
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