This brings to mind a question I have been considering for a while: Why
should it be that the seti@home project has collected such a large
number of downloads while gimps has only around 10,000.
Is it that the search for prime numbers is perceived to be the domain of
geeks while everybody is supposed to be excited about extra-terrestrial
life?
Or is it because of the underlying perception that mathematics is hard
and boring?
I've invited some of my real-life friends and colleagues to join gimps,
but without success. Some of these people had downloaded the seti client
and run it for a while but didn't seem to be impressed by its
performance or results.
I'm much more excited about gimps, and believe that I am much more
likely to find a certain Mersenne prime than evidence about
extra-terrestrial life (which would still only be a speculation even
so).
Humour me and visit http://www.geocities.com/intellectualsuicide/
Regards,
Ian
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Aaron Blosser wrote:
> At my current job, I manage the SMS stuff for our huge network. Out of
> curiousity, I ran a query to see if anyone had prime95.exe or ntprime.exe.
> Nope...none. Then I did a search for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and found a bunch...
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