Spike Jones wrote:
> play, there might be some very good reasons to *not* show up
> in the top contributors list. In fact, the someone who organized
Russ asked: What might those reasons be?
Well, if it is a reeeaaaally big company, the contribution of that one
might discourage the individual contributor who, at the end
of the day, is the real backbone of GIMPS, and I hope shall
henceforth be. And those two universities that compete for the
number one spot, I want to see that competition continue, along
with having the students there learn of the game.
What we are doing here is greater than just mapping the great
mathematical universe here, friends. Ask yourself: Do I *know*
more about math now than when I started GIMPS? The vast
majority of us would respond YES! Of course. In this sense
George is perhaps the greatest math teacher of his time, and
furthermore, GIMPS has awakened in many of us a long dormant
love of the beauty and total coolness of mathematics.
Nowthen, I want to *encourage* people to join GIMPS, even
if they have a slow outdated computer, just so more people can
learn some math, have some fun and perhaps spread the meme
that computing is cool.
I am employed at a really big company, and I am trying
to push thru the bureaucracy there to run GIMPS on ALLLL
the computers, 24-7-52. That in itself is a huge job, but it
is a huge prize, all those idle CPUs. Ive been working on
this for almost a year now, and slow progress is being made.
Ive been offered a few machines, but I want em ALL! spike
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