Ultimate EFF Prize Limit of GIMPS

[chappy]

Originally Posted by Flatlander

He needs them in binary?! I missed that.
I have memorised all the digits if that helps.

that's a whole bunch of 1's followed by a couple more 1's.

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by chappy

that's a whole bunch of 1's followed by a couple more 1's.

He needs the exponents in binary, which unfortunately isn't so easy... but still as trivial as adding 2 to 2. (Too many t*o's?)

[chappy]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

He needs the exponents in binary, which unfortunately isn't so easy... but still as trivial as adding 2 to 2. (Too many t*o's?)

It could be done, my first job was programming binary load lifters, which is very similar to your gimps. I just hope he doesn't want the exponents in Bocce.

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by zero33550366

hi there,

first of all congratulations to GIMPS and Richard E. Crandall,
for their discovery of the 48th mersenne number.

I have a mersenne search idea, to be tested,
for my test, I need all discovered 48 mersenne numbers in binary form,
i.e. for every ((2 to the power n) - 1) prime I need all 48 n's.



if I am right in my postulate,
I would give credit to the ones that provide me with those numbers.


If I am not mistaken the award for each mersenne number discovered is 3000 USD,

if mersenne numbers are proven to be infinite, along with the algorithm to generate all mersenne numbers.

how long does that award stay 3000 USD?
I understand it will require much higher computational power to come up with a new mersenne number test, however this may prove to be a steady source of income for a while for the person that comes up with such an algorithm,
at least until quantum computers are made available.

thanks.

what's the idea ?

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

what's the idea ?

Sigh....

[Batalov]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

what's the idea ?

science_man_88, just provide the poster with those 48 numbers, and don't forget to collect an advance payment from her/him, because you guys might be sitting on millions of dollars here. I think $30 for each of the first 48 numbers for your trouble should be a fair price.

Then there's a small matter of the algorithm.

As a starting point one could take the preliminary work by one John Conway. Obviously, -1 should be subtracted, but this formula eventually produces all of the Mersenne primes!