Chris Nash wrote:
> maybe every electronic device in my house will be
> squaring and subtracting 2 in its idle time.
make that every stitch in your clothing
David Nicol 816.235.1187 UMKC Network Operations [EMAIL PRO
I'm on a roll tonight. Here's another one from me. Sorry guys, but this one
was just too plain freaky to be a coincidence.
> The technical term is "superconductor" and I can conceive it quite fine
:-)
> (This will probably provoke more cryonics postings.)
I can see it now, George will be asking
Chris Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 10^12Hz... wow! Can you imagine the technical innovation needed to get a
> machine where light only travels 0.3mm in a clock cycle? That's some
> densely packed, erm, stuff... probably not silicon, the sort of thing
> we probably can't conceive right now (e
Once again my apologies for lowering the tone, and many thanks for some
sensible and thought-provoking responses!
> Following conservative estimates of cpu power and number of participants
> doubling every two years, I'd guess that we will have a our first billion
> digit prime in 2021, when we
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Colin Percival wrote:
>
> So we are about 7.5*10^10 P90 years away from our first billion digit prime.
> Following conservative estimates of cpu power and number of participants
> doubling every two years, I'd guess that we will have a our first billion
> digit prime in 20
At 07:49 PM 10/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> > My apologies for being so inane, but I wonder whether the EFF *b*illion
>> > digit prime prize or SETI will happen first, too...
>>
> [Gilmore, John (AZ75)] Unless someone comes up with a MUCH faster
> algorithm, or a parallelizable algorit
> [Gilmore, John (AZ75)] Unless someone comes up with a MUCH faster
> algorithm, or a parallelizable algorithm, since a 90 GHz Pentium
> would
> take (to one significant figure) 80 years to test _one_ exponent, my
> guess
> would be SETI (assuming, of course, that there ac
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Chris Nash [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:32 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:Mersenne: M38, SETI, and other random stuff
> >
> > My apologies for being so inane, but I wonder whether the EFF *b*illio
My vote for "Most Inane" would be to the guy a year or two ago who claimed
to know for an absolute certainty that there were only, (I think it was) 37
Mersenne primes. Whatever the number was, it was about one more than had
been discovered at that point.
> -Original Message-
> From: Chri
