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View Poll Results: Which news item would you like to see the most?
"Fastest known general primality test discovered" 4 12.12%
"Fastest known factorization algorithm discovered" 7 21.21%
"High school student proves Riemann Hypothesis" 6 18.18%
"Intel unveils 1-TFLOP 'Infinity' processor" 8 24.24%
Other (maybe write your own?) 8 24.24%
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Old 2006-01-07, 02:44   #34
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Proof of the Goldbach Conjecture
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Old 2006-01-10, 13:41   #35
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A hypothetical processor whimsically invented by ixfd64. He means a hypothetical new CPU that is several orders of magnitude faster than any currently available ones.
already possible - the downside ... nop is the only known command
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Old 2006-01-10, 15:15   #36
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already possible - the downside ... nop is the only known command
What do you mean?
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Old 2006-01-10, 20:31   #37
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if you create a machine whose only process is nop (no operation - used in preventing pipeline bursts) then you can create a machine so that it processes them fast enough
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