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Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft
- sudo_cowsay 3mo agoseems fun. like boinc. i wish there was more boinc.
- sudo_cowsay 3mo agoCould you make the tracking a little bit better for the website? I turned off my machine but it is still saying "Active" and the compute time keeps increasing on the website.
- zkmon 3mo agoJust curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?
- ChucklsTheBeard 3mo agoVery large primes are not a particularly useful result. The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.
- mpreda 3mo agoThe largest known prime could be considered a universal scientific benchmark. It is also a concise statement that is trivial to verify. (by "trivial" meaning much much easier to verify than to discover in the first place)
- moebrowne 3mo ago> If you ran SETI@home or Folding@home back when that was a thing SETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary