You've got an always-on-top window looking like this on your desktop:

...you don't visit the forum for three weeks to avoid the attempts of your competitors to diminish your Prime95 performance.

(That's not really why... but it makes a good excuse! :grin:)

The words "smaller then 10 million digits" have the same effects on you as winning the gold in the triple jump.

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[QUOTE=dominicanpapi82]The words "smaller then 10 million digits" have the same effects on you as winning the gold in the triple jump.

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The words "larger then 10 million digits" have the same effects on you as winning five golds. :cool:

...you decide to become an eye surgeon to boost your "career opportunities".

[QUOTE=jinydu]...you decide to become an eye surgeon to boost your "career opportunities".[/QUOTE]
For testing the eye sight, you have Mersenne primes on the wall instead of letters.

[QUOTE=Mystwalker]For testing the eye sight, you have Mersenne primes on the wall instead of letters.[/QUOTE]

...you discipline unruly patients by ordering them to read the entire decimal expansion of M42.

If they're still misbehaving, you make them read the entire [B]binary[/B] expansion of M42, without any mistakes!

[QUOTE=jinydu]If they're still misbehaving, you make them read the entire [B]binary[/B] expansion of M42, without any mistakes![/QUOTE]

Uh ... isn't that 25,964,951 consecutive 1's? :rolleyes:

/Leif

[QUOTE=leifbk]Uh ... isn't that 25,964,951 consecutive 1's? :rolleyes:

/Leif[/QUOTE]

Of course, you would have to keep track of how many 1's you've already said.

Is that how prime numbers work when "translated" into binary code? A big sequence of 1's (equal to the exponent with base of 2)?

For Mersennes, yes. Because they are 2 raised to a power minus 1.