[QUOTE=ixfd64]Despite the fact that GIMPS is designed for parallel computing, you consider this:

[url]http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/57463[/url] (it's in German)[/QUOTE]


Im guessing its about a super computer....
Decides to hack apart super computer and make super farm ;)

...you propose a new calendar system that counts the number of days since the last Mersenne prime discovery.

For example, the current date is

72,42

72 days since the discovery of M42.

...you immediately demand a Nobel Prize.

(I hope this one is not old...)

you already re-read all Douglas Adams books (esp. the Hitchhiker).

You try to explain your fascination to one of your kids.

... you name your kids after Mersenne prime discoverers

... you refuse to celebrate their 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th and 9th birthdays.

[QUOTE=jinydu]...you propose a new calendar system that counts the number of days since the last Mersenne prime discovery.

For example, the current date is

72,42

72 days since the discovery of M42.

...you immediately demand a Nobel Prize.[/QUOTE]
as well as a brand new cray super computer to further ur dieing intrest in mersenne numbers

... you consider a FLOPS to be the basic unit of finance. Thus, you "correct" Moore's Law: The price of a dollar doubles every two years.

... after reading the thread

[url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=4351[/url]

you decide to hack into the UTC timekeeping system to give it an "upgrade".

...you do the above but do NOT buy the clock because Mersenne primes are not one of the special primes it displays.

You know the above.

You buy your first node and extra required to make it work spends 3 hours thinking someone made a typo but really you were just being thick headed but in the end total processing power jumped 1.8 ghz ;) first node.... :banana: :banana: :banana: