Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #1038

[Elias Daher]

Hi everyone,
This is a general reply to most of the messages posted here about poaching and anything related!!!

It doesn't matter if numbers were poached, are being poached or will be poached, and it doesn't matter if I discover a new prime or if anybody else discovers it, or whatever, what matters is that humanity has now good enough (not sure!) tools to discover new primes, so anyone with a 300 $ machine can achieve that, and actually, it would just be like revealing a fact that everyone can live without! So, unless we might redefine what a prime number is (which is unlikely!) the numbers will never change, they will remain prime! We are proving nothing! It's the math tools that are proving whatever has to be proved, we are just using our computers as complementary tools!

Suppose that I discover a 10 million digits prime using the Lucas-Lehmer test, on a "stupid" machine... And let's tell what is great and what is not! First, if the Lucas-Lehmer didn't exist, the discovery would have been impossible! Second, if the "stupid" machines didn't exist, the discovery would have been (almost!) impossible! Third, if the project did not exist, the discovery would take let's say a lot more time than what it takes with it! And Last, if I did not exist, anyone else could have done it! So, I'm doing nothing! I'd rather try to find a new algorithm to be listed in "first"! ;-)
(I should've mentionned that first if human beings didn't exist, then... you can figure this out! No offence to the possible existence of ET intelligence!)

So, poaching is just useless for the poachers! They can use their "intelligence" somewhere else where they can get a lot more benefits or at least a real benefit!

By the way, if you read the "about prime95" dialog box, it's mentionned that it's a "just for fun software"!!!

One last word, Prime 95 could be cooler and more fun if there were logs for every iteration! Like all the calculations and stuff! But it wouldn't interest a lot of people, so, as prime 95 is open source, I'll do that myself!

Cheers!

Elias Daher (double majoring in mathematics and computer science in Paris, France)

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