Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
> What do you call someone who searches for primes only because > of the prize money?
>
> A mersennary.
I wish I had said that. In fact, I may claim that I did, since it is
such a perfect pun/whatever.
Gerry, feeling uncharacteristically envious
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I am going to build a dual processor box running NT. How do I set things up
so I get copies of Prime 95 running on each processor. I want to get
maximum bang out of this combination.
Terry
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Chip Lynch wrote:
> Have a party... wouldn't YOU like to meet the other people working with
> GIMPS? Frankly, this wouldn't be THAT expensive, and we could even make
> it a symposium or something call for papers or research in the area of
> computational number theory.
Great idea Chip! I t
The EFF of course, is offering the prize to help the advancement of just
this sort of distributed computing (well, in a simplified nutshell). I
don't think anyone should "profit" from GIMPS, but if we were to win a
huge prize, I think we should use the money as it's intended.
The idea of giving
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Otto Bruggeman wrote:
> I propose we split it like this :
> 33% to the finder of the first 10,000,000 digit prime,
> 33% to Scott and George, for doing excellent work
> 33% to charity, deciding by vote by all the members of gimps, every
> doublecheck gives an extra vote over f
From: Pierre Abbat
> What do you call someone who searches for primes only
> because of the prize money?
>
> A mersennary.
I'd also suggest that they be called 'not too bright.' If someone wants
money, there are lots of far more certain ways...
Rick.
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What do you call someone who searches for primes only because of the prize
money?
A mersennary.
phma
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George Woltman wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> At the risk of opening Pandora's box, I'd like to bring
>up the possibility of splitting up the $100,000 award for a 10 million
>digit prime. I'm soliciting everyone's opinion before making a decision.
>
1/4 to George or charity (his choice)
1/4 to Scott
> Hi all,
>
> At the risk of opening Pandora's box, I'd like to bring
> up the possibility of splitting up the $100,000 award for a 10 million
> digit prime. I'm soliciting everyone's opinion before making a decision.
I propose we split it like this :
33% to the finder of the first 10,000,000 d
George Woltman wrote:
>4) The discoverers of any Mersenne primes between now and the 10,000,000
>digit discovery. This will encourage an orderly exploration of the exponents
>and keep up interest over the coming years.
You have anticipated my idea, George. The EFF awards should have been
stru
At 05:32 PM 7/17/99 -0400, George Woltman wrote:
> At the risk of opening Pandora's box, I'd like to bring
>up the possibility of splitting up the $100,000 award for a 10 million
>digit prime.
1/3 to George, or a charity of his choice
1/3 to Scott, or as he wishes, e.g. Entropia.com
1/3 to
Hi all,
At the risk of opening Pandora's box, I'd like to bring
up the possibility of splitting up the $100,000 award for a 10 million
digit prime. I'm soliciting everyone's opinion before making a decision.
First off, it is by no means guaranteed that GIMPS will claim the
award
From: H
> Why cant i get my peronell statistik?
> i use
> http://entropia.com/cgi-bin/primenet_user.pl?UserID=youraccountID
> an i changed my ID?
> It worked a couple of days ago!
I think you need a password in there somewhere. I can't imagine it working
without it.
Rick.
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Why cant i get my peronell statistik?
i use
http://entropia.com/cgi-bin/primenet_user.pl?UserID=youraccountID
an i changed my ID?
It worked a couple of days ago!
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I think the FAQ is ready for "general" release.
I have been working on it for 20 days, and it includes most
of the FAQ's and some of the not-so-FAQ's. I have tried
to make it as understandable as possible, though I am not a very
good writer. Please send me any errors in it (technical, spelling,
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