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Towing Scam | 10-16-2009 - Mersenne Prime Numbers Just recently I saw posted a new Mersenne Prime number had been found. I knew that prime numbers were important to encryption and the theory that numbers were so big that it would take forever for a computer to solve it by trial and error. What I didn't know was the EEF was paying $100,000 for the number found and there were two other prizes at $150,000 and $250,000 still unclaimed. Now for the real great part of the story, after reading through wikipedia it was posted that a Dell OptiPlex 745 was the machine used to find the latest Mersenne prime number solved. LOL! No way! On EEF's website itself it states that using super computers or ditributive processing seemed to be the only practical methods left for finding more Mersenne Prime numbers. I verified on UCLA's website just to make sure someone wasn't tampering with wikipedia. It appears it was just the main controller computer and that they had atleast 75 other machines in the lab running the program when they weren't in use. (0) Comments |