At 04:48 PM 2/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>After hanging around the Anandtech DC forum for awhile, I'm convinced that
>this completion time "problem" might be GIMPS biggest hurdle to getting
>more participation. Very few "loonies" like us are willing to wait 14
>months for the calculation of one result. Those folks at Anand's are
>interested in visible changes in daily statistics, something GIMPS doesn't
>provide when doing LL testing.
Then why is SETI@home so popular, when it shows little in the way of daily
statistics, either?
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