Spike Jones wrote:
> Ask yourself: Do I *know*
> more about math now than when I started GIMPS?
You can say that again. I remember well when I asked on the list what the
point of P-1 factoring is when it takes an hour to get to 1000000 (or
1000003, rather) while trial factoring can do 2^40 in the blink of an
eye. Now I feel reasonably comfortable writing a simple P-1 factorer (I
need to get into that polynomial stage 2 thing!), or computing the odds
of finding a factor, given a certain bound.
The best thing I can say about GIMPS is that it revived my long-lost
interest in math, and I'm having a wonderful time with it.
> Ive been offered a few machines, but I want em ALL! spike
Go spike.
Ciao,
Alex.
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