From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 20:08:52 MST
On Sunday, December 01, 2002 8:38 PM spike66 spike66@attbi.com wrote:
> Well damn. A year ago, I posted to extropians
> a calculation that there was a 50% chance the
> next record prime would be discovered by November
> 2002, which is history now. What happened is the
> number of participants in GIMPS levelled off,
> or rather grew more slowly than I anticipated.
> One would almost get the impression that not
> many people even care what is the largest known
> prime number.
Spike, I care, but I'm having enough trouble filling my soupbowl.:/
Happy Holidays!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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