>From: Yvan Dutil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:45:22 +0100
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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 th
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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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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
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
>
>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 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
>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 Ma
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 ag
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
At 08:29 PM 03/30/2000 +1200, 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?
1. To the average person, aliens are a lot "sexier" than prime numbers.
Anyone can picture little gr
> Precisely. I hope a serious discussion, short of a "war," can be ignited,
> although perhaps GIMPS is not the proper forum. George and
> and the other pioneers and principals might weigh in on this. The "listening"
> SETI group, not the astro-physicist community searching for Earth-like plan
>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
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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 lif
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 th
>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 cho
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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,
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 ha
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 w
>From: "Halliday, Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: Aaron Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "Mersenne@Base. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:2
> 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
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
>
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 suppo
>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 G
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