I was curious as to how the cash prizes [1] for this challenge compared to playing the lottery. Consider the next smallest one left: RSA-768. By my very rough e

I was curious as to how the cash prizes [1] for this challenge compared to playing the lottery. Consider the next smallest one left: RSA-768. By my very rough estimates [2], $1 worth of computing time on a typical desktop gives you a probability of 10^-58 of factoring the prime by picking random numbers smaller than its square root. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge [2] https://www.google.com/#q=%241+%2F+(%240.09+%2F+kwh)+%2F+100+watt+*+100e9%2Fsecond+%2Fsqrt(4120234369866595438555313653325759481798116998443279828454556264338764455652484261980988704231618418792614202471888694925609317763750334211309823974) https://www.google.com/#q=%241+%2F+(%240.09+%2F+kwh)+%2F+100...