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  1. Re:I have the next largest prime after this one on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    you are correct. I miss read the math world article about them.

    for the number to be prime, n must be prime, but that does indeed not exclude n being prime and the number being composite. it just says that you cannot have a prime mersenne number if n is composite.

  2. Re:Largest known perfect number? on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    umm... the form of the formula is off.

    mersenne number is of the form:

    (2^n) -1

    when n is prime is the only time a mersenne number is prime.
    the reason for this is that you have a series of 2's. by itself, that series is divisible by 2k where k n. if you subtract 1 from the number however 2k is no longer a divisor and since the original number's factors were only of the form 2k there can be no other factors.

  3. Re:I'm just curious... on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    numbers of sufficient size and primacy can be used to cypher.

  4. Re:Largest Prime? on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    call this new prime p.

    the largest prime is now:

    (2^p) - 1

    since for all mersenne numbers, which are of the form (2^n) -1, when n is prime the the mersenne number is prime.

    soooooooo

    do I win something?

  5. I have the next largest prime after this one on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    (2^((2^25,964,951) - 1) ) -1

  6. Re:Oh great. on Stem Cell Injections Pioneering Step Forward? · · Score: 1

    these are "adult" stem cells. I quote adult because they come from the patient's bone marrow, not from some lump of cells that could become a human if it was not abandoned and left frozen and forgotten.

  7. Re:Bollocks!! on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: -1, Troll

    shut the fuck up loser.

  8. Re:stunning on Rasterman Responds To Seth And Havoc · · Score: 1

    tied in in 6 months and not fully deployed for 2 years. all that tech is part of windows and OS X now if you count the development software... like I know you are doing in Linux.

  9. Re:Give me a break on Trouble Brewing at the W3C? · · Score: 1

    woops.. I meant 80%. inverted my figures.

  10. Re:Mini downgrades on Apple Updates iPod · · Score: 1

    that is what will make the photo even more popular.

  11. Re:Give me a break on Trouble Brewing at the W3C? · · Score: 1

    because their market dominance in the browser is decreasing and has gone below 20% on many active websites.

  12. Re:OS X Server has it built in... Open Directory on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services? · · Score: 1

    hardware lockin? how? you planning on building your own system? OS lockin sounds more like what you are concerned about and that is not a problem at all. Linux, BSD, Pegos...etc.

  13. Re:Dangerous Abilities in Today's Legal Climate on A Savant Explains His Abilities · · Score: 1

    remember mercury rising?

  14. dupe, dupe, dupe of earl on Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth · · Score: 1

    dupe dupe dupe or earl
    dupe dupe dupe of earl....

  15. Re:OS X Server has it built in... Open Directory on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services? · · Score: 1

    nice uninformed moronic opinion there.

  16. Re:That iPod on Nanotech Based Display · · Score: 1

    just buy the 20 hour replacement battery for it.

  17. Re:Power supply... on Intel Announces Laser Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    it takes less power to send a photonic signal than an electronic signal. so the answer to your question is... NO!!!

  18. Re:But it's not a laser on Intel Announces Laser Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    but it is a laser. so try reading!!!!

    you think nature would publish something about a laser that is not really a laser?

  19. Re:i read all three articles and... on Intel Announces Laser Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    or all optical everything except the PSU!!!

  20. Re:case for Genesis Device test site on The Indirect Case For Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    perhaps a mix of vulcans and antarians.

  21. Re:Graphic Card Dependencies on Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux · · Score: 1

    coreImage is an API that will make it easier for developers to used the GFX card for processing images. it will scale to the abilities of the card. the GUI will not have any need for it.

  22. Re:Yet more eye-candy... on Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux · · Score: 1

    the underlying technologies that allows for those effects are what will promote new usability features. the 2D GUI is maxed out for usability... now we have a 3d accelerated GUI based on PS/PDF.... that is where the future lies... though I think Windows will have their GUI based on .DOC bleh

  23. Re:I think their efforts would be better spent on. on Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    no... because basing it on OpenGL means that they are abstracting the GUI from the GFX card and the GUI will run on a computer that does not have the right hardware. if the right GFX card existed in the system, all the better.

  24. Re:Am I missing something..? on WiMax Technology Could Blanket the US? · · Score: 1

    connectivity does not mean that everyone is on the sam network dork.

  25. wait until analog TV spectrum is up for sale on WiMax Technology Could Blanket the US? · · Score: 1

    then we can get wiFi with perfect reception everywhere.