On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 07:27:35PM -0500, George Woltman wrote: >Of course this is all very wishful thinking. It would take about 20,000 >top-of-the-line P4 systems a year to have a 50% chance of finding a >10M prime. We will find it one day, but it is more likely to be when >5 and 10 GHz P4s are commonplace.
Speaking of which -- shouldn't we be (statistically) really close to finding a new prime soon? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
