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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!
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Obviously not.. What about 27? Or 77? Neither of these are prime.
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.
What thoroughly useless information. Maybe the dice deals page has something better.
Don't be such a curmudgeon. While this inset really "stuff that matters" it's definitely "news for nerds."
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...
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.
I suppose prime sextuplets are mostly just cool, because they're primes, and close to each other.
Who knows, they might have applications in cryptography, image compression or whatever.
It is possible that there are an infinite number of twin primes, but only a finite number of triplets/quadruplet/sextuplet.
This currency could be a way to find the biggest sextuplet, ONCE AND FOR ALL!
press release mirror here
and riecoin.org is back online
Just sayin'.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
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...
*whooooosh*
*woooosh*
What is TFS?
The Fucking Summary.