On Monday 25 March 2002 00:31, 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.
If you look back through the messages, the figure of 210,000 is quoted in the press release from Entropia.com - it relates to the number of client systems attatched to _all_ projects serviced by Entropia, not just GIMPS/PrimeNet. > 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. GIGO! (Garbage in garbage out for those who've forgotten 1970s acronyms) Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
