Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft

Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft(primecrunch.com)

32 points by andyhedges 54 days ago | 6 comments

moebrowne 52 days ago |

> If you ran SETI@home or Folding@home back when that was a thing

SETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary

sudo_cowsay 52 days ago |

Could you make the tracking a little bit better for the website? I turned off my machine but it is still saying "Active" and the compute time keeps increasing on the website.

zkmon 52 days ago |

Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?

ChucklsTheBeard 52 days ago | |

Very large primes are not a particularly useful result.

The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.

mpreda 51 days ago | |

The largest known prime could be considered a universal scientific benchmark.

It is also a concise statement that is trivial to verify.

(by "trivial" meaning much much easier to verify than to discover in the first place)

sudo_cowsay 52 days ago |

seems fun. like boinc. i wish there was more boinc.