On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:39:31 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:53:50PM +0200, mohk wrote:
Are we alone?
1) no, we found something
2) dunno :)
Are there more than 38 (aren't we at 38 now? ;-) ) Mersenne primes?
1) No, we found something.
2) Dunno :-)
Now, of course, we _think_ there are more Mersenne primes out there,
while SETI is more of a guess ;-)
Do you think SETI will let us ask the aliens if they've found further
Mersenne primes? If so, are they eligible for the EFF prize, and do
we have any chance of independently verifying a gigaprime in a sane
amount of time? :-)
This, I suppose, is where distributed.net has the advantage - aliens
are unlikely to be looking for the specific key to the RC5 challenge
:-)
Nathan
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