No doubt you've all heard about the paradox of Man's first interstellar voyage.
If we were to build and launch a spaceship today that would take us to the
nearest star in, say, 100 years, then a better spaceship launched later would
arrive sooner provided our technology advanced fast enough during that time.
When will we reach the crossover point in GIMPS, where it's better to wait for
a faster computer, than to start an LL test today? If we assume that Moore's
Law holds (computing speed doubles every 18 months), then it would seem that
the crossover point would be when an LL test takes 3 years (18*2 months) on
current hardware.
Anybody willing to hazard a guess as to when we'll reach that point?
Greg Hewgill
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