Ooh, let’s do this with the Busy Beaver function too. BB(5) is only 12,289 binary digits to say out loud. BB(6) and BB(7) can’t possibly take that much longer to say.
Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
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Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#22Are they going to verify that everyone said their sequence correctly? It would be a silly and pointless prank to derail the effort by omitting a number on purpose, but this is the internet... Or maybe it's just the 'coming together' aspect that we're going for anyway, in which case, it doesn't matter :)
Maybe they could run it through Whisper on Groq? It should be able to process individual clips in about a second.
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#23They should say it in binary
It's a lot harder to make a mistake in binary mersenne primes, and if you loop your video's, 1 person should be able to do it quickly, so might be a bit boring.
I you allow to replay the videos it's going to be boring anyway, in binary as well as in decimal.
For example, in decimal, you can group the digits by pairs, and you just need 100 videos.
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#24does the current largest prime number have any practical implications as for today ?
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#25does the current largest prime number have any practical implications as for today ?
Most cryptography is based on factoring difficulty
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#26The key is to say it in a base-M136279841 number system.
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#27does the current largest prime number have any practical implications as for today ?
No.
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#28Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#29The key is to say it in a base-M136279841 number system.
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#30Just to me, this seems like a waste of resources
You gotta have some whimsy.