On Dec 4, 2007 2:41 PM, Ian Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin has probably not come to the most unbiased place for an answer > to his question, as I would expect most people here to believe that > GIMPS is indeed significant. I don't know of any other mathematical > search doing as much reliable work.
There is a number of mathematical search projects, some of them are of no less significance than GIMPS (at my opinion): SoB: http://www.seventeenorbust.com/ Fermat Divisors search: http://www.fermatsearch.org/ ProthSearch: http://www.prothsearch.net/ ZetaGrid: http://www.zetagrid.net/ Riesel Prime Search: http://www.15k.org/ RieselSeive: http://www.rieselsieve.com/ PrimeGrid: http://primegrid.com/ >From scientific significance, it is hard to argue why GIMPS is any better. But there are other factors that distinguish GIMPS from the others. The prize money may be a good motivation for participating. I really wonder whether there will be significant recession of GIMPS participants after the discovery 10^7-digit prime. Regards, Max _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
