704.5 days to go on this 10m digit prime my computer at home is working
on. P2 233. 1.93 years. I think it said 1 in 250,000 chance if finding
a prime. So.. on average, it would probably take that one computer, by
itself, 241,250 years to find a 10m digit prime. Right ?
I'm okay with that. But I think, if possible, it'd be good to break up
primes into like, 1 month chunks, & distribute them. I'm sure it'd be
possible, I just don't know if/how much it'd impact speed.
I also think it would have been better to award $5k per new prime, of any
length. But that's just my opinion.
And how is the probability of finding a prime calculated ?
I wanna do a comparison of the prize money to probability ratio between
distributed.net's rc5-64 project ($2k prize), & GIMPS 10m digit prime
($55k prize). But it'll take me a chunk of time. Any estimates ?
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