On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:26:32PM +0000, Allen Poapst wrote: > Some sort of GIMPS 10,000$ thing, I have no clue what this is, is it a > reward for finding the formula?
The GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) project to which you refer can be found at: http://mersenne.org. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is offering a several prizes for identifying prime numbers whose magnitude exceeds specific values. For example, the next prize to be awarded is likely to be $100,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits. While your formula sounds interesting, I am not aware of any monetary prize for the discovery of such a formula. Greg Hewgill http://hewgill.com _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
