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Unless OP finds some way to turn our understanding of prime numbers on its head, the best case in one year is turning the 100k into 50k by finding the first pri
by fragsworth 11y ago
Unless OP finds some way to turn our understanding of prime numbers on its head, the best case in one year is turning the 100k into 50k by finding the first prime with 1,000,000 digits.
- dm2 11y agoIs that prize still being offered? I think it was claimed in 2000, "The $50,000 prize will go to Nayan Hajratwala of Plymouth, Michigan, a participant of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), for the discovery of a two million digit prime number found using the collective power of tens of thousands of computers on the Entropia.com network." https://www.eff.org/press/releases/big-prime-nets-big-prize https://www.eff.org/press/releases/big-prime-nets-big-prize
- bentpins 11y agoThe article linked refers to the smallest of four prizes offered. $50,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 1,000,000 decimal digits (awarded Apr. 6, 2000) $100,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits (awarded Oct. 22, 2009) $150,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 100,000,000 decimal digits $250,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 1,000,000,000 decimal digits
- chrischen 11y agoUnfortunately that prize has already been awarded :(.