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Forgive my ignorance, but what is the purpose of finding prime numbers that are insanely large?
Long story short, it’s fun to find out new things about weird numbers :)
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And still can’t recommend me anything interesting outside of my chamber.
I wouldn't mind if it didn't keep recommending me videos I've already watched (they're showing the red bar! they know I've watched it!) or from channels I've already said no to or on topics I've frequently said no to or on topics that I watched one video on[1] and now YouTube thinks I want a full page of similar videos. The algorithm is, for want of some better words, absolute cack. [1] Even if I don't finish the vid…
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the purpose of finding prime numbers that are insanely large?
Sweet Child of Mine probably works.
Comfortably Numb(ber) allegedly works, but I doubt any of the singers I have access to can enunciate fast enough. For the most relaxed of the options, it has amazing little clouds of fast notes.
MUST RESIST: this is worse than waking up to a Saturday morning "Nerd Sniping", I could lose the whole weekend to this… I'll bet Nate isn't busy… With him and the girls from (redacted) Bohemian Rhapsody could work…
UPDATE: There goes the weekend. So far I've been in a fight with ChatGPT about counting syllables in copyrighted lyrics where I ended up suggesting it get help for its obvious emotional trauma at the hands of an IP lawyer and lined up 5 singers. "enjoy the ride" has beaten "they are just intrusive thoughts".
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the purpose of finding prime numbers that are insanely large?
Beyond a points its curiosity and pushing existing computational techniques to their limits. Sometimes it leads to new discoveries in computational techniques or in rarer cases new theoretical work. Long story short, it’s fun to find out new things about weird numbers :)
Don't be boring. A quick triage with an AI and a spot check suggest that the guitar solo at the end of Hotel California has just about the right number of notes (depending on how many '7' you get). Sweet Child of Mine probably works. Comfortably Numb(ber) allegedly works, but I doubt any of the singers I have access to can enunciate fast enough. For the most relaxed of the options, it has amazing little clouds of fas…
"She's My Number Pi: The Irrationally Long Number Pi Song"
I got strong "The Nine Billion Names of God" vibes from this! Just as the last video is uploaded, without any fuss, the stars start going out... https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
That was a fun read. I think I let myself get a little too excited for an ending that couldn’t possibly satisfy, but it was still satisfying innit its own way
> None of us can do it alone Off topic but this is not technically true. 41 million digits means 1.3 years of saying one digit per second. Even taking 3x as long, to account for sleep and other activities, this would take about four years - still very much doable. Four years times $100k/year plus $100k completion bonus equals $500k; I guess many people would be willing to do it alone under these conditions.
The goal of this project is not only to say the big number, but to say the big number before we discover the next bigger number.