Prime Factoring/Calculating Software - Page 2

gd_barnes · 2012-01-03, 23:03

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Originally Posted by antimath

hello fellow math nerds! i am a pc

Wow, a PC posting messages that identifies itself as a PC. That's a first!

antimath · 2012-01-04, 02:32

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Originally Posted by jasonp

There's big prize money involved for anyone who can do that :)

$400,000? the only prize i know of is the EFF one found here: https://www.eff.org/awards/coop. and thats only for $150,000 OR $250,000 ..you cant get both prizes if thats the $400,000 you are talking about...

xilman · 2012-01-04, 09:16

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Originally Posted by antimath

$400,000? the only prize i know of is the EFF one found here: https://www.eff.org/awards/coop. and thats only for $150,000 OR $250,000 ..you cant get both prizes if thats the $400,000 you are talking about...

Oh yes you can.

First find the smaller prime, worth 150K, and collect the prize. Then find the larger prime by the same method and collect the remainder.

Dubslow · 2012-01-04, 09:29

Or just find the larger prime before the smaller and collect both prizes at once.

jasonp · 2012-01-04, 12:56

Technically only one prize will be awarded at a time, if you collect the bigger one first then you forfeit the smaller one. So don't do that :)

science_man_88 · 2012-01-04, 13:34

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Originally Posted by jasonp

Technically only one prize will be awarded at a time, if you collect the bigger one first then you forfeit the smaller one. So don't do that :)

should we make threads to help figure them out like the megaprime thread is trying for the first 1000000 digit prime ? it follows similar logic.

antimath · 2012-01-04, 20:45

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Originally Posted by xilman

First find the smaller prime, worth 150K, and collect the prize. Then find the larger prime by the same method and collect the remainder.

You are one smart person!

science_man_88 · 2012-01-04, 21:28

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Originally Posted by antimath

You are one smart person!

it's called logic

LaurV · 2012-01-05, 04:06

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Originally Posted by Dubslow

Or just find the larger prime before the smaller and collect both prizes at once.

Forbidden by the rules. If you can find primes of over a billion digits, then you have to find 2 (TWO) of them to take the 100M-digit prize. The smaller prize is not forfeit if you find only one OBD prime. They are unrelated, see the EFF rules.

xilman · 2012-01-05, 08:24

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Originally Posted by antimath

You are one smart person!

Flattery will get you everywhere.

2012-01-04, 12:56	#16
jasonp Tribal Bullet Oct 2004 5·23·31 Posts	Technically only one prize will be awarded at a time, if you collect the bigger one first then you forfeit the smaller one. So don't do that :) Last fiddled with by jasonp on 2012-01-04 at 12:57

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