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Finding the First Trillion Congruent Numbers
eldavojohn writes "First stated by al-Karaji about a thousand years ago, the congruent number problem is simplified to finding positive whole numbers that are the area of a right triangle with rational number sides. Today, discovering these congruent numbers is limited only by the size of a computer's hard drive. An international team of mathematicians recently decided to push the limits on finding congruent numbers and came up with the first trillion. Their two approaches are outlined in detail, with pseudo-code, in their paper (PDF) as well as details on their hardware. For those of you familiar with this sort of work, the article provides links to solving this problem — from multiplying very large numbers to identifying square-free congruent numbers."
It's how Derren Brown really predicted the lottery numbers.
The rest was already full of pr0n. These guys don't get out much.
But it doesn't look like there's much hope for anyone resolving BSD in the foreseeable future.
Of course not. Netcraft has already confirmed that BSD is dead.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
.... Specifically, they had to figure out news ways of multiplying numbers, since the numbers they wanted to multiply were larger than their hardware's main memory.....
Perhaps these are the guys that should have been working for Enron? I'm just sayin -- new ways of multiplying numbers...!
"i lost my dignity on a slippery wiener"
The 80's called. They want their hacked paged memory architecture invented because of crappy small address buses back.
At least their Hard Drive works, mine wont turn on anymore after I spilled a little coffee in the cup-holder. Stupid foreign electronics.
Anyway, can't they just have the Geek Squad put in more Gigabytes?
Said, "It's just like dice but it's got more sides And it tells me who lives and who dies"
Math gives you a highly addictive mind/mood altering experience? Hmm... We must have tried different Math.
You are. The addictive one is called "Crystal Math."
$comment =~ s/($verb)\s+($noun)/IN SOVIET RUSSIA, $2 $1s YOU!/g;
Can I then ask, what must have happened in one's life, that he considers that to be "fun"? ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Well \emph{of course} not...
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
This isn't a TeX document either. That would be just wrong.
;)
After all, If we had a way to post readable formulas and uncommon chararacters, this wouldn't be the Slashdot comments section