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?"

x

[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.

[QUOTE=davieddy;305806]I am a theoretical physicist.[/QUOTE]
My uncle is a physicist, since my mom is his sister, would that make her a physicister?

And since she is also a physicist, would she then be a physicisterist?

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

My physics teacher always said that physicists do their shopping from the same catalog that features the Acme products used in the Wile E. Coyote cartoons.

"Let's see...the school year is about to start...I'll take a box of massless, frictionless spheres...a cubic yard of ideal monatomic gas...and three infinite conducting planes. Better throw in a bag of point charges too...the size 3 ones, please."

[QUOTE=bcp19;305945]My uncle is a physicist, since my mom is his sister, would that make her a physicister?

And since she is also a physicist, would she then be a physicisterist?[/QUOTE]

But then she might need a physic.

[QUOTE=davieddy;305901]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]

Babe, is your Argand diagram purely imaginary, or are you just happy to see me? Nudge nudge, wink wink.

[QUOTE=bcp19;305945]My uncle is a physicist, since my mom is his sister, would that make her a physicister?

And since she is also a physicist, would she then be a physicisterist?[/QUOTE]
I don't know, but that would make you a son of a physicisterist for sure.

[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;305991]My physics teacher always said that physicists do their shopping from the same catalog that features the Acme products used in the Wile E. Coyote cartoons.

"Let's see...the school year is about to start...I'll take a box of massless, frictionless spheres...a cubic yard of ideal monatomic gas...and three infinite conducting planes. Better throw in a bag of point charges too...the size 3 ones, please."[/QUOTE]

Don't forget to throw in some [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow[/url].

[QUOTE=kjaget;306091]Don't forget to throw in some [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow[/url].[/QUOTE]I got a kick out of [URL="http://what-if.xkcd.com/4/"]xkcd's Mole of moles[/URL]
I think I've stumbled across it a few times in the last couple of days.