Who Knows... Someone or Something (maybe even this difference will appear much much more thin then now!) will be able to know the exact distribution of any kind of any variable he (it) can think about...
As we say here in Italy, who will live will see... Just be patient... And try to live as longer as you can ;-)
Regards. Guido (Team_Italia member)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Welsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 7:28 AM
Subject: [Prime] What does the future hold?
12 Mersenne Primes were discovered before electronic computers (5 starting with Euler).
12 more were discovered on early computers (Robinson through Tucker), 16 years.
Then came the era of Seymour Cray and 10 more were found over the next 18 years. (The NEC was a vector processor)
Then came GIMPS. 7 Mersenne Primes in about 8 years.
Total 41 Mersenne Primes, 29 found over the last 42 years, 31 over the last
100 years.
My question is, what will happen when Quantum Computing becomes reality?
--Luke
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