I see your point, and I'm aware it can be done. I didn't mean any kind of
personal attack on you for your idea. Creative thinking is one of the most
important things in my opinion. I just think such important and
interesting things as GIMPS shouldn't be spread over to consoles. GIMPS is
working incredibly well and so many numbers are getting crunched so quickly
by the mass effort. If we all remain patient, we will soon have another
mersenne prime on the list.
At 13:59 04/13/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I know many have complained about my console idea (which, as I said, was not
>very realistic at this point), because they only have single precision. I
>just want you to consider that George once had an _integer_ version of
Prime95
>running, but it was roughly 7 times slower (if I remember right) that the
>FPU version. (The factoring code for 486es and clones _is_ integer, BTW.)
>
>However, there is strength in numbers. A _lot_ of people have consoles. So
>even if they aren't as much worth as a P3/5555Mhz or whatever, they still
>_help_, much more than 486es.
>
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