On Oct 1, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:

> El Jue 01 Oct 2009 10:41:16 [email protected] escribió:
>> Redundancy of 2 catches essentially ALL random errors   Given the  
>> current
>> number of computers, it would be more than a millennium before a  
>> single
>> undetected random error was missed - assuming that there were only  
>> 128 bits
>> of output / task.
>
> "Number is prime" is a 1-bit output.

Depends on how you search ... if you issue one number and divide down  
then you have a one bit return

If you issue a range to search , using sieve for example, then the  
number(s) have/has to be returned.
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