Seventeen or Bust Nixes Three Sierpinski Candidates

Craigj0 writes "In just 8 days Seventeen or bust has removed three Sierpinski candidates after people have been trying for years. Seventeen or bust is a distributed attack on the Sierpinski problem. You can find the first two press releases here(1) and here(2), the third is still to come. More information about Sierpinski numbers can be found here. Finally they could always use some more people so join!"

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So I should stop running TivoCrack now?

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't really tell the difference between all these distributed computing projects, so I'll just keep participating in whichever one is the most recently endorsed by Slashdot.