http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18863.html
Here is an interesting story of the latest distributed computing contest.
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is offering prizes up to $250,000
for finding huge prime numbers. The first prize is $50,000 for finding a
prime number larger than 1 million decimal digits, the highest prize is
$250,000 for finding a prime number larger than 1 billion decimal digits.
The actual EFF page that describes the contest is here:
http://www.eff.org/coop-awards/
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-= Jeff Gilchrist =- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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