What is a year???
 

[QUOTE=petrw1;320210]She's Alive!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

Well I finally achieved the full year transition.
My very first GIMPS PC (PIII 400 Mhz) was completing in 1 year what my new i5-3570K can complete in 1 day.

:ouch:

[QUOTE=petrw1;321127]Well I finally achieved the full year transition.
My very first GIMPS PC (PIII 400 Mhz) was completing in 1 year what my new i5-3570K can complete in 1 day.

:ouch:[/QUOTE]

Holy Hell. Haha! :-)

Just shows you how far we have gone :smile:

Today I received my copy of Donald Knuth's "The art of computer programming" vol. 4A, and noticed that my name was on the bibliography...

:et_:

[QUOTE=ET_;321415]Today I received my copy of Donald Knuth's "The art of computer programming" vol. 4A, and noticed that my name was on the bibliography...

:et_:[/QUOTE]

That's awesome! For what?

[QUOTE=Dubslow;321449]That's awesome! For what?[/QUOTE]
No. To.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;321449]That's awesome! For what?[/QUOTE]

Alphametics. Automatic resolution of doubly-true problems :-)

Luigi

[QUOTE=LaurV;321454]No. To.[/QUOTE]

:surprised:help:

[QUOTE]A tree is a rare treat. I siesta as I sit at it. I stir as I stare at sea. As I sit, stars rise nicely.

Dad and son sat on sod. Dad stood at noon, and son soon stood, too (on sand, not sod). A sad son, sans Dad, stood and stood. No Dad. A sad, sad finale.

(sum of all alphametics = last word = nicely, finale)
[/QUOTE]
That's bloody marvelous!

[QUOTE=ET_;321474]:surprised:help:[/QUOTE]
That's a 30 years old "englishtronic" joke, i.e. for English speaking electronic engineers/students. It goes like:
A guy walk in a components shop: "Do you have power resistors?", "For what?", "No. To", "To what??!?", "Yes", "No", "Thanks" and the guy lives the store**.

There are different versions of it, including nice comic strips, we use to hang them on walls in dorms when we were students, I can't remember it all, as I am not native speaker, I always miss something. In the last 10-15 years as the internet took charge, I tried many times to locate the comic strips but I always failed, the words are so common that they confuse any search engine... Part of the humor comes not only from the dialog, but from the faces of the guys (the buyer and the seller).

[COLOR=White](* For those who don't understand the joke, because they are not electronic geeks, or not English speakers, or they don't want to, :razz: the dialog is like:
"Do you have power resistors?" asks the buyer
"Is 4 watt good for you?" replies the seller
"No. I would like two watt."
"Two watt?"
"Yes"
"Sorry, we don't have those"
"Thanks"
)

(now I realized that my explanation makes a good joke too haha).[/COLOR]

It sounds positively Pythonesque.

[QUOTE=kladner;321491]It sounds positively Pythonesque.[/QUOTE]More [i]The Two Ronnies[/i] and the four candles sketch.