dave wrote: > > > For those who don't know: like SETI@Home but you can use your > CPU's idle > > > time for different 'projects' and be able to win prizes and stuff. > > > > much better and much more sophisticated: www.mersenne.org, > looking for great primes ... > > > > I don't know if I can argue about it being better, but it's > definitely not more > sophisticated. > > Come on :) everyone knows how to find primes -- and to get big > primes you'd use 2^n+1 trick > to find them quicker. distributed.net is a simpel brute force, for the mathematics behind mersenne.org see: http://www.mersenne.org/math.htm ok,ok, there is no use for such primes, but mathematics is - like life itself - l'art pour l'art anyway. cu Bjoern _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
