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Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice

Posted by timothy on from the well-the-sextuplet-was-just-sitting-there dept.

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.

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  1. 'Sextuplets' by kheldan · · Score: 4, Funny

    You learn something new every day! I always thought 'sextuplets' were what you called nymphomaniac twin sisters!

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    1. Re:'Sextuplets' by mysidia · · Score: 5, Informative

      I always thought 'sextuplets' were what you called nymphomaniac twin sisters!

      Twin is two. Sex is 6.

      A sextuplet is a tight-nit group of 6; typically used to refer to the birth of 6 kids together.

      In the case of primes; it is 6 primes found sequentially which are very close to each other, where the largest prime is within 16 units distance of the smallest of the 6 primes.

    2. Re:'Sextuplets' by aliquis · · Score: 2

      But what does it REALLY mean?

      WTF is a prime sextuplet?

      A number made of six factored prime numbers?

      What is it used for?

      That would be way more interesting than "Random virtual coin network used to calculate some shit."

  2. Slashdotted already?! by Ken_g6 · · Score: 2

    For a network with such "massive distributed computing power", that's some pathetic servers they've got there.

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  3. Re: your car analogy is umm close. by hamjudo · · Score: 2

    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.