You just might be addicted to GIMPS if... - Page 54

Damian · 2007-02-12, 01:52

sometimes you think your bests friends are the others members of mersenneforum.org

(guilty)

ixfd64 · 2007-03-29, 05:24

One of your favorite movies is Stealth (even though it didn't do too well in the box office) because the protagonist Ben Gannon has an obsession with prime numbers.

ET_ · 2007-03-29, 08:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by ixfd64

One of your favorite movies is Stealth (even though it didn't do too well in the box office) because the protagonist Ben Gannon has an obsession with prime numbers.

Don't forget Jeff Goldblum inj both Jurassic Park II and Independence Day...

Luigi

davieddy · 2007-03-29, 11:23

You spend all day with two pages of IE open on the Primenet
stats summary page, and update them to monitor the hourly progress.
Doing just this, I witnessed a milestone passing a couple of days ago:
There are no longer any 100,000 exponent ranges <36 million with
a four figure number of first time LL tests outstanding.

Yours sadly,
David

kuratkull · 2007-03-29, 14:50

You spontaneusly burst into tears when you see a friends computer or many demo computers, in a computer store, switched on and wasting their cycles on a screensaver.

Nichtwahr · 2007-03-29, 15:44

...you want to be contacted by intelligent extraterrestrials so you can ask them whether they know what the next Mersenne prime is!

...and then keep it to yourself so you can be the first to 'discover' it.

jasong · 2007-03-30, 01:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nichtwahr

...you want to be contacted by intelligent extraterrestrials so you can ask them whether they know what the next Mersenne prime is!

...and then keep it to yourself so you can be the first to 'discover' it.

You get mad at Nichtwahr for his suggestion because your life lacks meaning if all the Mersenne primes are discovered. In other words, you consider running Prime95j to be your reason for existence.

jinydu · 2007-03-30, 01:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasong

You get mad at Nichtwahr for his suggestion because your life lacks meaning if all the Mersenne primes are discovered. In other words, you consider running Prime95j to be your reason for existence.

... you don't even know of anyone who doesn't consider running Prime95 to be the reason for existence. The very thought seems inconceivable!

StarQwest · 2007-05-05, 03:38

I am definately addicted to GIMPS! After all, not only was I the first to complete a LL test of a number in the 2^100,000,000 (30 million digit) range, I am now actually testing a 100 million digit number for primality...

As for the time required, lets just say it will likely finish sometime within the next decade.

Mini-Geek · 2007-05-05, 12:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by StarQwest

I am definately addicted to GIMPS! After all, not only was I the first to complete a LL test of a number in the 2^100,000,000 (30 million digit) range, I am now actually testing a 100 million digit number for primality...

As for the time required, lets just say it will likely finish sometime within the next decade.

If you left it on that one computer it would...but by the time it finished, it would be as old as a Pentium II is now. I'm sure it will move up to faster hardware before it's done, which will make it finish much faster.

p.s. You spelled definitely wrong.

cheesehead · 2007-05-05, 14:55

... the reason you spot a misspelling of the word "definitely" is that you recall that "finitely" is imbedded in it.

2007-03-29, 14:50	#588
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2007-02-12, 01:52	#584
Damian May 2005 Argentina 2×3×31 Posts	sometimes you think your bests friends are the others members of mersenneforum.org (guilty)

2007-03-29, 05:24	#585
ixfd64 Bemusing Prompter "Danny" Dec 2002 California 95E₁₆ Posts	One of your favorite movies is Stealth (even though it didn't do too well in the box office) because the protagonist Ben Gannon has an obsession with prime numbers.

2007-03-29, 11:23	#587
davieddy "Lucan" Dec 2006 England 14512₈ Posts	You spend all day with two pages of IE open on the Primenet stats summary page, and update them to monitor the hourly progress. Doing just this, I witnessed a milestone passing a couple of days ago: There are no longer any 100,000 exponent ranges <36 million with a four figure number of first time LL tests outstanding. Yours sadly, David

2007-03-29, 15:44	#589
Nichtwahr Mar 2007 The midst of an L-L test 4₁₆ Posts	...you want to be contacted by intelligent extraterrestrials so you can ask them whether they know what the next Mersenne prime is! ...and then keep it to yourself so you can be the first to 'discover' it.

2007-05-05, 03:38	#592
StarQwest Jan 2006 Tampa, Florida 2×97 Posts	I am definately addicted to GIMPS! After all, not only was I the first to complete a LL test of a number in the 2^100,000,000 (30 million digit) range, I am now actually testing a 100 million digit number for primality... As for the time required, lets just say it will likely finish sometime within the next decade.

2007-05-05, 14:55	#594
cheesehead "Richard B. Woods" Aug 2002 Wisconsin USA 2²·3·641 Posts	... the reason you spot a misspelling of the word "definitely" is that you recall that "finitely" is imbedded in it.