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They should say it in binary
by mserdarsanli 2y ago
They should say it in binary
- sigio 2y agoIt's a lot harder to make a mistake in binary mersenne primes, and if you loop your video's, 1 person should be able to do it quickly, so might be a bit boring.
- yen223 2y agoWell at least the calculations are easier It takes about 3s to say 10 "one"s There are 136,279,841 ones in the binary mersenne prime That works out to about 41 million seconds worth of footage, or about 473 days Given there was a gap of 6 years between the discovery of this mersenne prime and the previous, in theory 1 person could say all the digits (in binary) before we find the next mersenne prime!
- dylan604 2y agoSure, if that one person can stay awake and not eat/drink and use the restroom, sure. Otherwise, you need to make this union happy with 8 hour shifts, 2 15 minute breaks, and a minimum of 12 hour turn around before next shift. If they work more than 8 hours in a day, they are entitled to over time. Working a sixth day in a row is automatic 1.5x pay, and seven consecutive days is automatic 2x pay. Want to run your calculations again? =)
- variaga 2y ago"The largest known prime is two raised to the power of one hundred thirty six million two hundred seventy nine thousand eight hundred forty one, minus one" only took me 8.2 seconds to say aloud at a normal speaking pace. :)
- Gare 2y ago> Given there was a gap of 6 years between the discovery of this mersenne prime and the previous It was the largest gap so far. Several primes were quite close. The next one might be discovered much sooner. Previos two had a gap of a bit less than a year.
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- marginalia_nu 2y agoThen sort the bits and RLE-code them ;-)
- repiret 2y agoThere’s nothing to sort. In Binary, a Mersenne prime comprises only the digit 1.
- nojs 2y agoLike this? https://youtu.be/CTjolEUj00g https://youtu.be/CTjolEUj00g
- schoen 2y agoWith a lot fewer zeroes!
- ginko 2y agoThey could even reuse the footage for the next mersenne prime they find.
- analog31 2y agoif it's a Mersenne prime, then it could just be 0xFFFFFFFFF...