[QUOTE=axn;326811][URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=16850"]This[/URL] thread had some useful discussions regarding BOINCifying GIMPS (towards the end). Perhaps it is high time to start some focused discussion on making this into reality? It doesn't cost much to think about these things. Who knows, if something feasible does come out, we can get it implemented.[/QUOTE]

Let's do it!! How might we start?

[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;326641]*Some* people say. The ones that got away. As opposed to those who got strapped to the comfy chair to listen to the voice of Ben Stein recite every single digit of 2^43,112,609-1. (Yes, little did Mersenne know that his favorite numerical torture implement was itself a Mersenne prime!)



Actually, from what we are learning in this thread, he was quite a crank, probably scrawling cmd-like messages and random claims of primality on the walls of the abbey. What if...he was Blazys-esque?!?



THE SPANISH INQUISITION! Our weapons are trial factoring...trial factoring and LL testing...no wait, our two main weapons are trial factoring and LL testing...and double-checking...no wait, our three main weapons are...Cardinal Biggles, you'll have to say it![/QUOTE]

Marin Mersenne was neither an inquisitor, nor a crank!
I suggest you to have a look at this Mersenne biography :
[url]http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Mersenne.html[/url]

Whith my enthusiastic congrats for the new GIMPS success!
Jean

[QUOTE=Jean Penné;326835]Marin Mersenne was neither an inquisitor, nor a crank!
I suggest you to have a look at this Mersenne biography :
[URL]http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Mersenne.html[/URL]
[/QUOTE]

That is a very interesting and informative article, Jean. Many thanks for linking to it. The list of his scientific associates alone is amazing.

Kieren

Marin Mersenne
 

[QUOTE=kladner;326872]That is a very interesting and informative article, Jean. Many thanks for linking to it. The list of his scientific associates alone is amazing.

Kieren[/QUOTE]

Yes, he was someone like the World Wide Web of the epoch!
Jean

Funny how lack of phone / e-mail / IM / train / plane / automobile/ facefook / twitbox didn't seem to hinder them all that greatly in keeping in touch with what their colleagues were doing.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;326889]Funny how lack of phone / e-mail / IM / train / plane / automobile/ facefook / twitbox didn't seem to hinder them all that greatly in[/quote]slowly[quote]keeping in touch with what their colleagues were doing.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=cheesehead;326992]slowly[/QUOTE]And perhaps better? They had time to think through and form intelligent responses. As opposed to the Twitter/Facebook[strike]/mersenneforum[/strike] instant response generation with a low amount of non-trivial content. [strike]Just like this reply.[/strike]

My guess is 57,885,161.

afraid not.
 

[QUOTE=R. Gerbicz;327722]My guess is 57,885,161.[/QUOTE]

You actually just (correctly) predicted M49.

I will go on record here claiming that 1 more MP will be found lower than this one.

[QUOTE=R. Gerbicz;327722]My guess is 57,885,161.[/QUOTE]

Interesting. Exponent Status page just resets itself for that one. :smile:

[QUOTE=petrw1;327744]You actually just (correctly) predicted M49.

I will go on record here claiming that 1 more MP will be found lower than this one.[/QUOTE]

I (and many others) find that to be incredibly unlikely. In fact, we got lucky to find M48 so soon/low.