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I always told people to do mersenne prime search instead of s@h. https://www.mersenne.org/ https://www.mersenne.org/
by redis_mlc 7y ago
I always told people to do mersenne prime search instead of s@h.
https://www.mersenne.org/ https://www.mersenne.org/
- toomuchtodo 7y agoPrime95 was where it was at.
- dingo_bat 7y agoPrime95 helped me weed out a flaky power supply. The system would randomly freeze. The cursor would just stop moving, along with everything else. Otherwise the machine was working perfectly. I figured it that Prime95 triggered the freeze within 30 seconds of staring the torture test. Then it was just a matter of swapping out the ram and then the power supply. The new power supply let the computer go on running the test.
- 6nf 7y agoWhy is this better than SETI? What's the purpose of finding mersenne primes
- rrdharan 7y agoIMO there isn't much of one, at least not enough for me to feel motivated to run Prime95 (the GIMPS client), but others may find the justifications here more convincing: https://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.html https://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.html
- redis_mlc 7y ago> Why is this better than SETI? What's the purpose of finding mersenne primes I hope you're kidding ... We will probably never find or communicate with ET, so the effort is a waste of time and resources. Space is just too big. But interesting numbers are already known to be valuable in group theory, encryption, and other areas. Golomb numbers are used today, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler And my standard disclaimer for technological illiterates: "It's not all about you."
- Hnrobert42 7y agoI think you are getting downvoted for your tone. I wondered the same thing as the parent post. I genuinely don’t about mersenne primes.