http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?UID=35947505SectionID=30SubSectionID=90ArticleID=23815
While I am the geek brother mentioned in the article I make no claim as
to the accuracy of the article.
Cheers... Russ
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On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Russel Brooks wrote:
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While I am the geek brother mentioned in the article I make no claim as
to the accuracy of the article.
What does "factor pi" mean?
phma
From: Yvan Dutil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:45:22 +0100
Well, I think the diffence of culture between the people of GIMPS and those
of SETI@Home can be illustred simply by the comparaison of subject
M(17) is the number of people that could fit into a /very/ large open arena
or stadium.
What stadium is that big? The one at Urbana seats only about 2.
phma
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I think the one at U. of Texas Austin holds 60,000
Pierre About wrote:
M(17) is the number of people that could fit into a /very/ large open arena
or stadium.
What stadium is that big? The one at Urbana seats only about 2.
phma
Pierre About wrote:
M(17) is the number of people that could fit into a /very/
large open arena or stadium.
What stadium is that big? The one at Urbana seats only about 2.
I think the one at U. of Texas Austin holds 60,000
Even one of the shorter tracks on the NASCAR circuit
M(17) is the number of people that could fit into a /very/ large open arena
or stadium.
We get what you're saying with the /very/ (emphasis on very), but it could
have been more accurately expressed with:
M(17) is about the number of people that could fit in three open arena
stadiums.
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Well, I think the diffence of culture between the people of GIMPS and those
of SETI@Home can be illustred simply by the comparaison of subject of
discussion
between this list and sci.astro.seti. This is the listing of recent
subjects:
SETI@home Online Newsletter
On 30 Mar 00, at 10:27, Stefan Struiker wrote:
I will be more detailed later, once I collect and refine my thoughts, but
at this point let me say that I think it is the group attracted to SETI,
and the Area 51, uh, "enthusiasts," who need some work, not the MPrime
interface.
I tend to
From: Bryon Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:01:53
1. To the average person, aliens are a lot "sexier" than prime numbers.
Anyone can picture little green men from Mars, but it takes a spec
I do wonder whether /any/ people can really appreciate the size of numbers
with the magnitude of the Mersenne primes. Running down the list of known
ones: (? signifies that I'm not sure how to represent the number)
I don't recall the details, but one nice example I heard to demonstrate
large
Sorry to be slow with this - I'm behind in my reading.
GIMPS was mentioned favorably in an article in the 4 March 2000 issue of
"Science News" under the title "Great Computations." It includes
commentary on a variety of distributed computing projects, and in addition
to GIMPS it mentions
This brings to mind a question I have been considering for a while: Why
should it be that the seti@home project has collected such a large
number of downloads while gimps has only around 10,000.
Is it that the search for prime numbers is perceived to be the domain of
geeks while everybody is
The main reason Ive heard for people liking the Seti project is
because the screen saver looks pretty.
--- "Halliday, Ian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This brings to mind a question I have been considering for a while:
Why
should it be that the seti@home project has collected such a large
The main reason Ive heard for people liking the Seti project is
because the screen saver looks pretty.
I've been thinking about this for about a month now and I really think it's
time for Prime95 to get a facelift. Now, I was thinking just along the
lines of having a better GUI. I.E. Have
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To: Aaron Blosser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:29:22 +1200
This brings to mind a question I h
TeamM:
I will be more detailed later, once I collect and refine my thoughts, but at
this point let me say that I think it is the group attracted to SETI, and the
Area 51, uh, "enthusiasts," who need some work, not the MPrime interface.
More to come,
Regards,
Stefanovic
Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy
At 01:29 PM 3/30/00 -0500, you wrote:
Is it that the search for prime numbers is perceived to be the domain of
geeks while everybody is supposed to be excited about extra-terrestrial
life?
The possibility of LGM is "sexy" in a pop-culture kind of way. Prime
numbers are only "sexy" to a
, March 30, 2000 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
TeamM:
I will be more detailed later, once I collect and refine my thoughts, but
at
this point let me say that I think it is the group attracted to SETI, and
the
Area 51, uh, "enthusiasts," who need some work, not
I hope this doesn't
start /another/ onlist flamewar... (sigh)
I doubt that would happen on here...the people on this list are all a part
of GIMPS, presumably. Well, except for the FBI and US WEST folks who
monitor my posts. :) So I think it's safe to say that you're just preaching
to the
Our machines are getting faster, wider, better. Itanium! Williamette!
On to victory! And someone is going to find that double-time code
breakthrough to get us all there at twice the speed.
Where is Alan Turing when we really need him?!
Stefanovic
Frank_A_L_I_N_Y wrote:
what aobut the fact
Nathan Russell wrote:
all the ones I named were previous efforts) have
found. I hope this doesn't
start /another/ onlist flamewar... (sigh)
>I'm much more excited about gimps, and believe that I am much more
>likely to find a certain Mersenne prime than evidence about
>extra-terrestrial life
From: "Frank_A_L_I_N_Y" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Stefan Struiker" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: "James Escamilla" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:23:34 -0500
what aobut the fact t
Sorry to be slow with this - I'm behind in my reading.
GIMPS was mentioned favorably in an article in the 4 March 2000 issue of
"Science News" under the title "Great Computations." It includes
commentary on a variety of distributed computing projects, and in addition
to GIMPS it mentions
Here is a somewhat lengthy article on GIMPS that appeared in the Philadelphia
Inquirer last Thursday. Presumably other Knight-Ridder papers ran it, being
that it was written by Doug Bedell of the Dallas Morning News, which is
another Knight-Ridder paper. Essentially it's a comparison of the
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