Yes, there seem to be a lot of journos around who just surf the web all day, and thus obtain the entire material for their stories. Look out for "...according to a report on the company's website..." :-)
So do we need a overview of the GIMPS project on mersenne.org (perhaps even linked to as "notes for journalists") which gives the core facts so that people don't keep getting it wrong? Bruce Leenstra wrote: > Gordon writes: >>Now where on Earth does the figure of 210,000 computers come from?? > > > This is the same mistake made on a previous news item: Both of them are misquoting >an earlier study that determined a *Total* of 210,000 computers worldwide were >participating in a distributed computing project of some kind. The other item was >worse: it used the 210k to calculate ratios and percentages to compare the different >projects. So of course all the numbers were useless, and the conclusions were idiotic. > > Bruce Yours, -- ======= Gareth Randall ======= _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
