[–] sudo_cowsay 21d ago ↗ Could 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 20d ago ↗ Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing? [–] ChucklsTheBeard 20d ago ↗ Very 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 19d ago ↗ The 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)
[–] ChucklsTheBeard 20d ago ↗ Very 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 19d ago ↗ The 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 20d ago ↗ > If you ran SETI@home or Folding@home back when that was a thingSETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary
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[ 0.29 ms ] story [ 21.5 ms ] threadThe mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.
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)
SETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary