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> None of us can do it alone Off topic but this is not technically true. 41 million digits means 1.3 years of saying one digit per second. Even taking 3x as lo
by thih9 2y ago
> None of us can do it alone
Off topic but this is not technically true. 41 million digits means 1.3 years of saying one digit per second. Even taking 3x as long, to account for sleep and other activities, this would take about four years - still very much doable.
Four years times $100k/year plus $100k completion bonus equals $500k; I guess many people would be willing to do it alone under these conditions.
- whaaaaat 2y agoDo we find prime numbers slower than one every four years? I would have thought we find newer bigger ones more quickly than that. The goal of this project is not only to say the big number, but to say the big number before we discover the next bigger number.
- NineStarPoint 2y agoIt took 6 years between the last largest prime number and the most recent. The two gaps before that were each only 1 year though. So depends on how lucky you think you’ll get.