From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 11:06:46 MDT
> (spike66 <spike66@attbi.com>):
> >
> >Thus spake the keyboard of <spike66@attbi.com>:
> >...We could snag the record! Who knows,
> >|perhaps we could discover the illusive odd perfect
> >|number.
> >
> >KPJ wrote: Good numbers... >yawn<
> >
> >How _BAD_ can odd numbers become?
> >
> >Maybe you should instead search for the most Evil Number?
> >
> Good idea. I have one whose goodness ratio is greater than 1.3. Of course
> the primes would have a ratio of 1/P, the way I have defined goodness
> ratio. That is an interesting question however. spike
That 1/P approaches zero as the primes go larger, and since it's easy
to prove that there is no largest prime, it follows that there is no
limit to evil, and that record evil numbers are already being searched
for adequately by GIMPS. I'll go back to protein folding now.
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