On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:02:30AM +0100, Torben Schl�ntz wrote: >What will we do when anyone finds a number of 10 million+ digits which >is prime?
Spread the prize according to the rules on the website, and continue searching? ;-) >Will everybody just leave the project because there is no prize to gain >any longer? Considering that the project worked very well for years (actually, a whole lot longer than we've had a prize) before EFF announced its prize, I doubt so. :-) >After the introduction of "search for 10 million digits number" this >could leave the project with quite a big hole, say from M14.xxx.xxx and >up till the exponent found. Well, then we'll do our best to fill such a hole, won't we? :-) >It will be kind of difficult to find new volunteers that will use time >and electricity to fill the hole if nothing more than glory is won. Doubtful (see my comments above). >Will there be an other prize? >Will there be a new goal? EFF has a prize for a 100+ million digit prime, and a 1000+ million digit prime. The first prize (which has already been awarded) also went out to a GIMPS member, discovering the first 1+ million digit prime. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
