Predict M48...

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

Yes, please do. We appreciate your positive contributions, but there is plenty of intolerance here already; we don't need more. Cf. "Don't feed the troll."

It's quite possible to establish a solid and well-respected reputation here by making positive contributions over time, without needing to prove that you're a top dog by swiping at all the little dogs so soon after starting here.

I was looking for a rare Beatles (not original) song with the lyric
Let me be your little dog till your big dog comes
Couldn't find it, so this all time classic will have to do.

David

Nope still can't locate it. Meantime this one strikes me as
vaguely appropriate (not to say superb!)

Got it! Carl Perkins wrote it?
Don't know, but...

[davieddy]

Matchbox

[imwithid]

Originally Posted by retina

If that is true then why did you make the claim in the first place? Better to be like everyone else here and just pretend to be a nobody, then you will get more respect.

On the Internet no one knows if you are a dog.

Unless they know how to use Google to find out if you're a dog or not.

We all leave crumbs after doing away with our cookies. They're easier to trace if one boasts that they've just had Oreos, thus eliminating the need to track the scent of dog biscuits.

[Uncwilly]

Could a MOD please split all posts starting at #248 and ff. into a different thread, please???

Suggested title for the new thread: "What does Google have to do with M48?"

Originally Posted by LiquidNitrogen

As one of their first 100 employees, I guess not.

BTW: I have a friend in Google HR (a long time employee) that could verify your claim, if you provided me a few details via PM that would be unique.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by bsquared

Ah, yes, but you forget that I'm a lazy programmer .
Why would I want to type extra characters and complicate my logic just so I can type 'unsigned' (more characters) instead of 'int'?

#include <stdio.h>

void stuff(unsigned x)
{
  printf ("%u\n", x);
}

void stiff(int x)
{
  printf ("%d\n", x);
}

main ()
{
  unsigned u, x=10;
  int i;

  printf ("Unsigned version:\n");

  u=x; do { stuff(u); } while (u--);
  /* That previous line is 37 characters long, including the terminal \n */

  printf ("\n\nInteger version:\n");

  for (i=x; i>=0; i--) { stiff(i); }
  /* That previous line is also 37 characters long! */

}

I rest my case your Honour.

Paul

[bsquared]

Originally Posted by xilman

clever example omitted...

I rest my case your Honour.

Paul

Look, all I was trying to say originally was that I can be an un-lazy programmer and yet still use ints as array index variables, given a situation in which that is a (IMO) natural choice.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by bsquared

Look, all I was trying to say originally was that I can be an un-lazy programmer and yet still use ints as array index variables, given a situation in which that is a (IMO) natural choice.

Sure.

All I was trying to say is that sometimes a for loop is not the appropriate control construct and that attempts to force its use can lead to lengthier and more contorted code.

Very rarely do I see a do-while loop used in code where it would be more appropriate than a for loop, IMO, and sometimes wonder why.


Paul

P.S. Flattery may get you everywhere, but was quite unnecessary on this occasion. The code I posted was far from "clever", IMO.

[LiquidNitrogen]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

BTW: I have a friend in Google HR (a long time employee) that could verify your claim, if you provided me a few details via PM that would be unique.

You suffer from the delusion that I care about who you know there 5 years after I retired and moved across the country.

But why don't you PM me the name of who you know there, so that I can verify your claim that you know somebody there.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by davieddy

2011-05-26 1.244

Expected new primes <793M:
2011-07-15 1.221

Decrease 0.023 in 50 days

Expected time to next prime is 2174 days

[LiquidNitrogen]

So today on the way back from JP Morgan Chase bank in Wilmington, Delaware, I saw a van with "PrimeCare, Milford, DE" painted on the side of it. It took me 3 traffic lights to catch up to him and a few more to finally get right next to the van when the light was red. I beeped my horn at him, and gestured for him to roll down the window.

I said "Did you know that two raised to the power forty three million one one two six oh nine, minus one, is prime?" He was shaking his head and said "Sorry buddy, my radio was on, I didn't catch what you said." So I repeated the whole thing. He said "What?" and I said it more slowly again.

He said "So what?" and I said "You mean you don't care?" and he said "No, I don't!" so then I pointed to the side of his van and said "But you work for PrimeCare!" and then the light changed green.

[Uncwilly]

There are 19 days left until we match the longest gap in the GIMPS era. And 42 days from hitting the average gap + 2 std dev.
axn has our next closest (non-expired) guess, 68,407,496 on 10/1/2011 (hmmm that looks close.)

First time tests have now passed the lowest guess:
tom11784.....38,066,453 6/23/2007

And these look not long for this world:
T.Rex...........38,500,000
PrimeCrazzy..39,999,999 9/1/2007

And ET just went on holiday (maybe that will do it.)