I read once that there are 10^308 atoms in the visible universe. I'm skeptical.
Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 On Sun, May 10, 2026, 9:53 AM Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Roger, nice to hear from you. Are you still in Santa Fe nowadays? If > so, why not drop by Friam at St John's and chat about this? Sounds > fascinating! > > It's interesting that so few numbers we stumble across are really large. > And how limited numbers are in computing like in JavaScript, which does > have a BigInt but it isn't good for really huge numbers. There is a good > library for huge: https://github.com/mikemcl/bignumber.js/. It would be > nice if the GPU could handle them. > > -- Owen > > On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM Roger Frye <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Friends, >> >> I just found 2 more today on my birthday. People ask me why I keep >> searching for more integer solutions to A^4 + B^4 + C^4 = D^4 . >> >> Some mathematicians are satisfied to have a proof that there are an >> infinite number of solutions, not finite, or zero. >> >> Statisticians worry about gaps in the distribution known of >> solutions.There is a suspicious dearth around 10^10 . >> >> As a computer jock, I am interested in the algorithms and the bridges >> between different mathematical formulations. I found a new way to do brute >> force searching. I’ve refined the two known elliptic curve methods and >> found a way to use the duality between them. I am searching for isogenies >> between the elliptic and hyperelliptic curves, but that problem is >> cryptographically hard. Yet I see patterns that keep me trying. >> >> Assistance from AI is laughable at this level of invention. Coding >> assistants just suggest ways to patch over bugs rather than uncover root >> causes. Deeper level suggestions for strategy lead down blind alleys almost >> all the time. I am sure AI will get better, but for now my experience and >> persistence are winning. >> >> -Roger -- still looking for a job. >> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / >> ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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