> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Nash [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:32 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Mersenne: M38, SETI, and other random stuff
> >
> > My apologies for being so inane, but I wonder whether the EFF *b*illion
> > digit prime prize or SETI will happen first, too...
>
[Gilmore, John (AZ75)] Unless someone comes up with a MUCH faster
algorithm, or a parallelizable algorithm, since a 90 GHz Pentium
would
take (to one significant figure) 80 years to test _one_ exponent, my
guess
would be SETI (assuming, of course, that there actually _is_ ETI out
there)
I'm not counting on seeing either in my lifetime.
________________________________________________________________
Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
