Reductio ad Absurdum
 

As a rule of thumb, the number of completed LL tests/day is proportional to
A) the number in progress
B) the frequency of their completion.

Ivy bridge is ~3 times faster than core2 (Tom Fivemack)

So God thought we might expect a big improvement in the rate of completion,
and all would be light.

But no:
The Devil roaring "Ho" said "Let Chalsall be" and restored the Status Quo.

[url=http://members.iif.hu/visontay/ponticulus/britannicus/mqs.html]Alexander Pope/Squire[/url]

Commencio ad Absurdum
 

> Implying every GIMPS participant immediately buys an Ivy Bridge

Have you?

[QUOTE=Dubslow;305798]> Implying every GIMPS participant immediately buys an Ivy Bridge

Have you?[/QUOTE]
Of course! Daveiddy owns 17 computers with Ivy Bridge each equipped with 3 GTX550ti s in crossfire!
Why else would he make this comment?

[QUOTE=Dubslow;305798]> Implying every GIMPS participant immediately buys an Ivy Bridge

Have you?[/QUOTE]
Nope and Nope.
I am a theoretical physicist.
And how much use would one man be to this project anyway.

By way of "showing willing" I run what I have 24/7 on LL.

D

PS It's good to see that you regard this forum as "useful homework".
PPS I am currently doing a 50M "suspect" expo.
I would have returned it, but noted that you had TFed it from 70 to 72.
Added interest being "will I get the same residue as the suspect?"

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[QUOTE=davieddy;305806]By way of "showing willing" I run what I have 24/7 on LL.[/QUOTE]

But rather small... Only 630 GHz Days over the last year.

[URL="http://mersenne.org/report_top_500_LL/"]http://mersenne.org/report_top_500_LL/[/URL]

That's what? A single computer?

(CH3)3CCH2CH(CH3)2... what do you think this is, Iowa?

[QUOTE=davieddy;305806]I am a theoretical physicist.[/QUOTE]

Hope you're ready to prove it (presumably by helping me with homework should I need it).
[quote=PHYS 325]Kinematics and dynamics of classical systems, including a review of Newtonian kinematics and dynamics. Three dimensional motion, variable mass, and conservation laws; damped and periodically driven oscillations; gravitational potential of extended objects and motion in rotating frames of reference; [U]Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics[/U].[/quote]
Real physics! Finally!! :smile:

[QUOTE=Dubslow;305819]Hope you're ready to prove it (presumably by helping me with homework should I need it).

Real physics! Finally!! :smile:[/QUOTE]

Alas for you, theoretical physicists only do imaginary physics.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;305868]Alas for you, theoretical physicists only do imaginary physics.[/QUOTE]

The best kind!!!! Who needs those fancy particle acceleratormajiggers? :grin: Those are for the [i]engineers[/i].

Why do think I like this factoring/primes stuff? Because it has absolutely no direct practical use! :razz:

[QUOTE=ewmayer;305868]Alas for you, theoretical physicists only do imaginary physics.[/QUOTE]If this forum were an Argand diagram, my axis/post would be vertical.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKADQnjQmc"]The Only Way is UP[/URL]

D

[QUOTE=davieddy;305806]I am a theoretical physicist.
[/QUOTE]
So am I! But I've been working as a geophysicist for the last 20 years.