On Sunday 08 June 2008 05:29, John R Pierce wrote: > > the amount of storage, and computational time for /any/ sort of sieve > algorithm would be astronomical
Rather more than that - if we could use every fundamental particle in the universe to store one bit of information, we'd still need a more-than-astronomical number of universes to do the job. Astronomical (and cosmological) numbers tend to fit on a single line of print, when expressed in decimal notation. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
