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Find a large prime number https://www.eff.org/awards/coop https://www.eff.org/awards/coop More ideas in an 8 year old thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546609
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- blululu 3y agoOr calculate pinto a lot of digits. For $10k you might hit the record.
- daveguy 3y agoNot close: https://www.livescience.com/record-number-of-pi-digits.html https://www.livescience.com/record-number-of-pi-digits.html 108 days on a 2021 supercomputer is a lot more compute than $10k.
- behindsight 3y agoBeaten a year later in 2022 by GCP once again https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-100-trillion-digits-of-pi-on-google-cloud https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-1...
- daveguy 3y agoAlso for a lot more than $10k.