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davieddy · 2008-10-17, 09:35

Finding a Mersenne prime with 100M digits takes
>1000 times as much computing as our 10M digit primes.

2^10 is a lot to ask even if Moore's Law continues to hold.

2008-10-17, 09:35	#1
davieddy "Lucan" Dec 2006 England 2×3×13×83 Posts	Hitting 100M digits on the head Finding a Mersenne prime with 100M digits takes >1000 times as much computing as our 10M digit primes. 2^10 is a lot to ask even if Moore's Law continues to hold. Last fiddled with by davieddy on 2008-10-17 at 09:40