Nick Craig-Wood wrote: If one had the data then it would be reasonably
easy to calculate the expectation (in $ per year) for a given exponent
size & CPU.
Nick, I worked this out a few months ago when the prizes were
announced. Using a pentium II/400 the mathematical expectation
for those hunting the 10 million digit prize comes out to about 18
cents per year, as I recall. Dont quit your day job... {8-] spike
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