moebrowne 17 hours ago > If you ran SETI@home or Folding@home back when that was a thingSETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary
sudo_cowsay 1 day ago Could you make the tracking a little bit better for the website? I turned off my machine but it is still saying "Active" and the compute time keeps increasing on the website.
zkmon 22 hours ago Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing? ChucklsTheBeard 16 hours ago Very large primes are not a particularly useful result.The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.
ChucklsTheBeard 16 hours ago Very large primes are not a particularly useful result.The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.
> If you ran SETI@home or Folding@home back when that was a thing
SETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary
Could you make the tracking a little bit better for the website? I turned off my machine but it is still saying "Active" and the compute time keeps increasing on the website.
Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?
Very large primes are not a particularly useful result.
The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.
seems fun. like boinc. i wish there was more boinc.