> I just noticed that the EFF is now offering $100,000 prize for the first
> 10,000,000 digit prime. I assume that this means that they consider the
> 1,000,000 digit prize essentially considered to have been claimed?
>
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> | Jud McCranie |
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The EFF had always had prizes for larger primes...I guess nobody really
considered any of the others besdies the first megadigit prime, since the
other awards probably won't happen for some time to come.
I think they ponied up in the neighborhood of $550,000 altogether, including
$250,000 for the first giga-digit prime.
I suppose that given the extra time it'll take to find those, effects of
inflation actually makes all the prize amounts equal :-)
As someone else said, in the time it takes to find a giga-digit prime, why
not throw a couple hundred bucks into a money market account or some other
interest bearing fund...in the time it'd take to find a prime that big,
you'd have already received that much in interest. :-)
Aaron
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