Mersenne: Smallest Prime Number Discovered, Soon After Largest
From a Satire site... http://theeschalot.com/smallest-prime-number-discovered.html Smallest Prime Number Discovered, Soon After Largest DETROIT - Wallace Bonownski says you don't have to have 200,000 computers and a grad student to discover a new prime number. You just gotta use yer thinker, is all, said the Michigan State University groundskeeper. I heard about Michael's big find, and I thought, 'Hey, if that's the largest prime number, then I'll bet the negative version would be the smallest. And I discovered it!' (continues) _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
[Re: Mersenne: Serious problems with v.18]
At 03:53 PM 6/6/99 +0200, you wrote: To everyone reading (and answering) this subject: The guy is trolling. We are all going into his troll. (This is proven by the fact that he just *wont* stop.) I agree, he's trolling. He claimed to be a programmer, but then over and over he claimed that bugs should *always* be caught in testing, prior to release. That proves he's lying, because no programmer can believe that happens in the real world. Shoot, I wouldn't think any computer user, much less programmer, would believe that. I'd been about to cuss him out prior to realizing that he was a troll. Maybe we'll get lucky and his ISP will screw him again... :^) --- Stephen Whitis Visit http://www.whitis.com for information about Delphi, NT4.0 software, Juggling, or darn near anything else I happen to be interested in. Don't spam me, and I won't report your spam. Spam me, and all bets are off. Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
Re: Mersenne: Screen saver killers?
At 02:37 PM 5/16/99 +, you wrote: I _know_ it's not as efficient in the absolute sense, but, if people would prefer to run a screensaver _and_ a version of Prime95, I wonder if it would be worthwhile updating the old Win 3.1 screensaver version. The point is, we want to make it attractive for people to participate. I don't read the group regularly. But I guarantee that if you try to tell me that I can't run a screen saver on my machine, then I'll tell you to jump off a bridge. (Disclaimer : I probably will be somewhat less polite than that.) Telling me "Oh, you can run our program, *and* if you want to run a screen saver for some stupid reason, you can run out screensaver" isn't any better. You'll lose more cpu cycles than you'll gain if you try to tell people "Do it our way or else". I run Prime NT as a service. I run a screensaver, *just because I like it*. IF you tell me that I can't do that, *I* will dump PrimeNT in a heartbeat. There isn't anything in it for me. I do it to help out, because it sounded like a cool project. Now you guys think you are big brother, able to control what I can and can't do with my machine. That plan sucks. --- Stephen Whitis Visit http://www.whitis.com for information about Delphi, NT4.0 software, and more. Support the anti-Spam amendment Join at http://www.cauce.org/ I won't do business with spammers, but I will report them, ridicule them, etc. Spam me at your own risk. Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
