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Batalov · 2012-07-20, 21:26

No wonder that Chris Cooper finds all the primes (and by now, he'd already found two more but holds on to them because two is so pass[FONT=Calibri]é[/FONT] - he wants to submit three at the same time).
Everyone else is clearing composites. :-)

Of course, seriously, this is not true either, and this poll has a systematic bias - it polls the forum members. 99% of the crunchers don't even know that the forum exists. Of them ~50% (or 30% or 90%?) may not even have a human behind them (I am referring to the Niesluhowski paradox - if one of his computers had deciphered the SETI signal he would never know! It could have been in a small classroom 50 miles away from him. He allegedly included SETI@Home + BOINC to CDs that were used to image all school district computers).

Sometimes this is how a new prime goes unnoticed for three months. (And the same nightmare is now in progress at PrimeGrid; there's a record prime, but no one can find the human who found it. The computer that reported the number stays cool under torture and never gave them the name. 8-S )

View Poll Results: How would you best describe your GIMPS activity?
I've never participated in GIMPS.	3	7.69%
Current participant focused on finding new primes.	4	10.26%
Current participant focused on "clearing" exponents.	19	48.72%
Current participant focused on factoring known composites.	4	10.26%
Former participant focused on finding new primes.	3	7.69%
Former participant focused on "clearing" exponents.	5	12.82%
Former participant focused on factoring known composites.	1	2.56%
Voters: 39. You may not vote on this poll

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2012-07-20, 21:26	#23
Batalov "Serge" Mar 2008 Phi(4,2^7658614+1)/2 9,497 Posts	No wonder that Chris Cooper finds all the primes (and by now, he'd already found two more but holds on to them because two is so pass[FONT=Calibri]é[/FONT] - he wants to submit three at the same time). Everyone else is clearing composites. :-) Of course, seriously, this is not true either, and this poll has a systematic bias - it polls the forum members. 99% of the crunchers don't even know that the forum exists. Of them ~50% (or 30% or 90%?) may not even have a human behind them (I am referring to the Niesluhowski paradox - if one of his computers had deciphered the SETI signal he would never know! It could have been in a small classroom 50 miles away from him. He allegedly included SETI@Home + BOINC to CDs that were used to image all school district computers). Sometimes this is how a new prime goes unnoticed for three months. (And the same nightmare is now in progress at PrimeGrid; there's a record prime, but no one can find the human who found it. The computer that reported the number stays cool under torture and never gave them the name. 8-S )