On 2015-08-05 12:50, Gibney, David Allen,Jr wrote:
> Taking 7M to store. I wonder how well that will compress :)
>
With a suitable algorithm, it compresses extremely well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
... only a few dozen bits.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John McKown
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 8:15 AM
>>
>> From:
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.johndcook.com/blog/
>> 2015/08/05/largest-known-
>> prime/&k=EWEYHnIvm0nsSxnW5y9VIw%3D%3D%0A&r=j6Xa1Y0fbuP2mfgCQ
>> 5Zxhg%3D%3D%0A&m=upvAUcersDESSei%2FTU2N5N6FQlkuCqIq5y0qaFDteN
>> g%3D%0A&s=041a8538238d96145748632be31cb9838c441514ede538855feed
>> a1ba807a0f7
>> <quote>
>> The largest known prime at the moment is P = 2 ^ 57885161 – 1.
>> This means that in binary, the number is a string of
>> 57,885,161 ones.
>> </quote>--
-- gil
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