Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loftprimecrunch.com 32 pointsandyhedges2 months ago6 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−moebrowne2moIf 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−sudo_cowsay2moCould 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.−zkmon2moJust curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?−ChucklsTheBeard2moVery 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.−mpreda2moThe 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)−sudo_cowsay2moseems fun. like boinc. i wish there was more boinc.
Comments
SETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary
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.
Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?
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.
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)
seems fun. like boinc. i wish there was more boinc.