You only celebrate a new year if the year number is prime.

You would only live in a house whose number is prime.

You get your friends addicted to GIMPS too.

You determine a complex way to leave your PC on during the day without anyone knowing.

... your first thought on reading about the virus that installs SETI is "Boy, GIMPS needs one of those!"

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by kwstone [/i]
[B]... your first thought on reading about the virus that installs SETI is "Boy, GIMPS needs one of those!" [/B][/QUOTE]

-- guilty --

...you decide on second thought: with we GIMPSters around, who needs such a virus?

:whistle:

If you spend all day, every day, thinking about and speaking only prime numbers.

Not speaking about prime numbers... just [i]speaking[/i] prime numbers.

[url]http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/zeta/twins.htm[/url]

They're 63 years old now, if they're still alive.

... you get really excited when you realize that NEW Mersenne Prime is discovered 17-11-2003

... you get even more excited when you realize that date of discovery is perfect combination of PRIME numbers!!! 17 (prime!) 11 (prime!) 2003 (prime!). BINGO!

You are 2 hours late for work because you have been sitting up until 2 o'clock in the morning, trying to figure out what the new Mersenne prime is. (Got it down to 8 candidates.)

...if you are watching the M40 treads right now...

You started a thread centred around M40 :innocent:

...if you are POSTING in a M40 Tread...