You just might be addicted to GIMPS if... - Page 36

Uncwilly · 2004-11-24, 20:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by dominicanpapi82

While in class, your apartment has a small power outage.

You daisy chain 5 UPS devices so that you can let P95 run during a power outage long enough to fire up your generate that you have bought only to serve your CPU.

nomadicus · 2004-12-21, 17:13

I checked my Dell warranty before doing this:
http://www.eqsrecording.com/images/road-laptop.jpg
North Carolina to Louisiana to New Jersey and back total mileage: 3,493 miles.
Interesting data: Number of access points detected by netstumbler: lost count, several hundred.
10M digit Prime95 accomplishments: Finished one, factored a second, started LL on a third.

ET_ · 2004-12-22, 00:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by nomadicus

I checked my Dell warranty before doing this:
http://www.eqsrecording.com/images/road-laptop.jpg
North Carolina to Louisiana to New Jersey and back total mileage: 3,493 miles.
Interesting data: Number of access points detected by netstumbler: lost count, several hundred.
10M digit Prime95 accomplishments: Finished one, factored a second, started LL on a third.

Just curious... which power system did you use?

Maybe I could be interested...

Luigi

jinydu · 2004-12-22, 09:41

... you are outraged by the EFF's $100,000 prize for the first > 10M digit prime because neither 100,000 nor 10,000,000 are themselves prime.

Mystwalker · 2004-12-22, 20:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by jinydu

... you are outraged by the EFF's $100,000 prize for the first > 10M digit prime because neither 100,000 nor 10,000,000 are themselves prime.

You donate some extra money so that the prize increases to the smallest prime > 100,000

ThomRuley · 2004-12-24, 04:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by PrimeCruncher

You are REALLY addicted if you only use Mersenne primes.

That's actually pretty easy to do (2:07 is same as 127 seconds)

All right, GUILTY!

jinydu · 2004-12-24, 05:27

... you secretly plot to kidnap Santa and demand a ransom of 24,036,583 new computers for your farm!

moo · 2004-12-24, 06:31

and you also tell santa to make shure you have a largeenoguh nuclear power plant and building + switches unlimited ac and network cable... back to you jin

jinydu · 2004-12-24, 13:14

... you've just finished the first draft of your New Year Resolutions:

coolprimes · 2004-12-24, 19:50

. . . decide not to go to collage so you can buy 1 (or 10) new computers to add to GIMPS.

coolprimes · 2004-12-24, 20:07

. . . you are afraid to maximize prime 95, for fear of wasting CPU cycles.

2004-12-21, 17:13	#387
nomadicus Jan 2003 North Carolina 11110110₂ Posts	Travel I checked my Dell warranty before doing this: http://www.eqsrecording.com/images/road-laptop.jpg North Carolina to Louisiana to New Jersey and back total mileage: 3,493 miles. Interesting data: Number of access points detected by netstumbler: lost count, several hundred. 10M digit Prime95 accomplishments: Finished one, factored a second, started LL on a third. Last fiddled with by nomadicus on 2004-12-21 at 17:14

2004-12-24, 13:14	#394
jinydu Dec 2003 Hopefully Near M48 2×3×293 Posts	... you've just finished the first draft of your New Year Resolutions: Attached Thumbnails Last fiddled with by jinydu on 2004-12-24 at 13:19

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2004-12-22, 09:41	#389
jinydu Dec 2003 Hopefully Near M48 2×3×293 Posts	... you are outraged by the EFF's $100,000 prize for the first > 10M digit prime because neither 100,000 nor 10,000,000 are themselves prime.

2004-12-24, 05:27	#392
jinydu Dec 2003 Hopefully Near M48 2·3·293 Posts	... you secretly plot to kidnap Santa and demand a ransom of 24,036,583 new computers for your farm!

2004-12-24, 06:31	#393
moo Jul 2004 Nowhere 809 Posts	and you also tell santa to make shure you have a largeenoguh nuclear power plant and building + switches unlimited ac and network cable... back to you jin

2004-12-24, 19:50	#395
coolprimes Dec 2004 2×5 Posts	. . . decide not to go to collage so you can buy 1 (or 10) new computers to add to GIMPS.

2004-12-24, 20:07	#396
coolprimes Dec 2004 2·5 Posts	. . . you are afraid to maximize prime 95, for fear of wasting CPU cycles.