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Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice
An anonymous reader writes Last week, Riecoin – a project that doubles as decentralized virtual currency and a distributed computing system — quietly broke the record for the largest prime number sextuplet. This happened on November 17, 2014 at 19:50 GMT and the calculation took only 70 minutes using the massive distributed computing power of its network. This week the feat was outdone and the project beat its own record on November 24, 2014 at 20:28 GMT achieving numbers 654 digits long, 21 more than its previous record.
You learn something new every day! I always thought 'sextuplets' were what you called nymphomaniac twin sisters!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Until they can find the father, else the whole crew of them will end up on the dole.
Can someone please summarize this into an car analogy for me, please?
now that's a spicy meatbal
What thoroughly useless information. Maybe the dice deals page has something better.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
27
Obviously not.. What about 27? Or 77? Neither of these are prime.
So... is that meant to be funny?
It's not funny, actually, she just mis-typed, she meant every number ending in 5 is prime since 5 itself is odd and prime - it's a proof called the lemmings red herring...
Can I use this prime as the unbreakable private key for my web server?
For a network with such "massive distributed computing power", that's some pathetic servers they've got there.
(T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
It's like there is this long, infinite road and along this road are mile markers and every so often one of these mile markers has a rest stop at it. Mile marker 3, 5, 9, and so on. The farther your drive however the more you notice how spread out these rest stops are, eventually having thousands upon thousands of miles between them. Then, as in this article, you discover a pack of six rest stops very close to each other when all the other ones were thousands of mile markers apart. Thats probably the closest I can get this to a car analogy.
There are rest stops at 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and so on, but 9 is not a rest stop. The first two overlapping sets of six rest stops aren't spaced the same as the rest, and thus don't have the same mathematical properties. The Riecoin compliant prime sextuplets, err, I mean rest stops on the infinite highway are {7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23} and {97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113}, except they are too small for cryptography.
What is a sextuplet in this use? Really big prime numbers are interesting... but what are they good for? Why bother finding them?
What the summary doesn't mention is that the network was recently hardforked so that this would happen on purpose.
Wait till next Sunday/Monday and they'll most likely break the record again, and then a week later they'll break that record etc... for a while to come.
Not that this is a bad thing... but just a marketing attempt to bring new power and interest into the network / coin value.
it ends in '7'.
Everybody knows that any number ending in '7' is a prime number.
27 isn't.
And it worked! Honey, guess where I just put all of my money?!?
press release mirror here
what about 45?
Crap. Now I've got to change the combination on my locks again.
Just sayin'.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
yeah messed up, should just be primes. Its turkey day, everyone is inebriated.
I'm not even close to being a math geek but I figured out the important part of the definition from basic word roots and context.
Now if we can just write a chess program that this machine can make use of--------
Errr... is that meant to be funny?
Maybe I'm missing something, but stating mathematical falsities is not, in and of itself, funny.
It's a waste of my time every time I make an effort with you ACs, really...
What is TFS?
What is TFS?
The Fucking Summary.
Well in that case, defining it in the summary would've been unnecessary, at least in the case of Slashdot.
Almost every summary on the website includes technical terms without their definitions, and including all of the definitions would've been a disaster. Slashdotters are expected to be able to google what they don't know.