> [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 assume you meant 90 MHz, not GHz. Who knows, we might actually see 90GHz
processors (in my lifetime anyway...I'm still sort of a young sprout :-), in
which case you'd be testing MUCH faster, yes?
Even with a nice 550MHz PIII, a 33M exponent could be tested in maybe around
1/12 the time of a P90 (about 6 times faster, as well as being much more
optimized...maybe more like 1/10). I think 80 years is a bit of an
overestimate though...but I could be wrong on that.
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