Hi all,
> The Mercury article mentions a $1100 prize for finding a prime. Who
> is offering this? I wasn't aware that any such prize was involved in
> GIMPS. (The prize was also mentioned in the Lode article, but I
> assumed they had confused GIMPS with distributed.net or some such.)
>
> - -andy
Entropia.com currently offers a cash prize of $1100 to $1500 ($1 for each 1000
digits of the discovered prime, between these bounds) for the discoverer of the
38th Mersenne prime, provided they network the test program over the Internet to
PrimeNet. The prize amount will probably be increased at an unspecified later
date. See http://entropia.com/ips for details.
Regards,
scott
