Mersenne: Aside: Who's got the most photogenic prime machine?

2002-03-25 Thread Gareth Randall
Hi, Many of us must have watched the latest movie and thought that it would be just us/more interesting if they had instead made a documentary on the computer technology that rendered the graphics. Although we have the stats on the number of machines participating in GIMPS, do any of us have

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #950

2002-03-25 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Monday 25 March 2002 00:31, Bruce Leenstra wrote: Gordon writes: Now where on Earth does the figure of 210,000 computers come from?? This is the same mistake made on a previous news item: Both of them are misquoting an earlier study that determined a *Total* of 210,000 computers

RE: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #950

2002-03-25 Thread Bruce Leenstra
Gareth Randall writes: So do we need a overview of the GIMPS project on mersenne.org (perhaps even linked to as notes for journalists) which gives the core facts so that people don't keep getting it wrong? A very good idea. Do we have any volunteers for GIMPS Media Relations Coordinator in