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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?

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Post by eurleif »

withinboredom wrote: post #119
eurleif wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that: >We're aware it's likely that if you're reading out a long string of digits like this, you're likely to slip up or say a wrong digit. Mistakes are a very human feature, but as long as you correct it and carry on, they're fine - we just need evidence of humans having said the whole prime, not necessarily in one go. You can watch your video back through before submitting to check it's ok. If you want to ed…

You don’t need semantics. Just what is expected. If it deviates and returns to what is expected, it is a success. If it deviates and doesn’t return, it is incorrect. The assertion is that all the digits are said, not that all the digits are said flawlessly.

Suppose the digit sequence is: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5". Someone says: "9, 2, 3 -- wait, the digit a few places back was a 1, not a 9 -- 4, 5". The pattern /^.*1.*2.*3.*4.*5.*$/ doesn't match; they didn't "deviate and return" in the way you seem to be implying; yet they've expressed the correction in a reasonable way that a human would understand.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by johnisgood »

encom wrote: post #92
robertlagrant wrote: post #90

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I use the like buttons to show myself I've watched a video. It does not result in optimal video recommendations, but hey ho.

The (dis)like buttons are now completely pointless on Youtube, since they removed dislikes when people disliked the wrong things and made Susan (RIP) sad. It feels like the Youtube algorithm is on drugs now. I get a lot of uninteresting recommendations of videos with no views from channels with no subscribers. A lot of recommendations of things I've already watched recently. A lot of recommendations of stuff that's e…

> when people disliked the wrong things and made Susan (RIP) sad.

That is wild.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by johnisgood »

wruza wrote: post #67
tux3 wrote: post #63

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I think it's just pretty hard to recommend things outside of what they know you like. You can log off and look at what's popular on your country's front page. I get a couple popular music videos, clash of clans, soccer, and a whole lot of clickbait/prank/you won't believe this/pikachu face thumbnail videos.

Won’t work without trying. It wasn’t hard 10-15 years ago when it was at its peak. I suspect all it did was relaxing walk rules and simply presenting more diverse selection, which optimizes for surfing but deoptimizes for some modal group. I also remember right-bar surfing techniques that don’t work anymore. Front page is distilled garbage to me.

I remember the right-bar surfing, too, when you got new or related / relevant videos.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by withinboredom »

eurleif wrote: post #141
withinboredom wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t need semantics. Just what is expected. If it deviates and returns to what is expected, it is a success. If it deviates and doesn’t return, it is incorrect. The assertion is that all the digits are said, not that all the digits are said flawlessly.

Suppose the digit sequence is: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5". Someone says: "9, 2, 3 -- wait, the digit a few places back was a 1, not a 9 -- 4, 5". The pattern /^.*1.*2.*3.*4.*5.*$/ doesn't match; they didn't "deviate and return" in the way you seem to be implying; yet they've expressed the correction in a reasonable way that a human would understand.

Depends on how you write the algorithm. As you mentioned, a regex won't work, but "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" is spoken in the clip.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by o11c »

ryankrage77 wrote: post #20
Svoka wrote: post #16

Btw, is it possible to say such number at all? In English, I mean. How would that work?

Probably not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers only lists up to a Millinillion, or 10^3003. You can compound them, but it kinda defeats the point. A googol is too small, and a googolplex is too large.

The whole point of the extensible system is that you can, in fact, extend it as much as you need.

... I just threw this into my zillion-ifier program and ... huh, it took 12 hours even with the GMP version, though I'll admit I didn't really optimize it ... the output is about a gigabyte of text

  eight tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentilliduoseptuagintaseptingentillion,
  eight hundred sixteen tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentilliunseptuagintaseptingentillion,
  nine hundred forty three tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentilliseptuagintaseptingentillion,
  two hundred seventy five tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentillinovensexagintaseptingentillion,
  thirty eight tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentillioctosexagintaseptingentillion,
  ...

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by sklivvz1971 »

gray_-_wolf wrote: post #93
sklivvz1971 wrote: post #77

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The direct application of looking for primes is that's an interesting computer science research project (perf, networking, big data) with a clear practical use, besides obviously being a pure research field which is valuable in itself. There are 800+ results in google scholar for the project ( https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GIMPS&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&... ) Vocalizing primes? Maybe it could be used in speech synthes…

> with a clear practical use, What is a practical use for largest known prime number?

The practical use is what we get from learning how to calculate it (fine tuning the algorithms, finding new ones, etc.)

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by whoami_nr »

wslin wrote: post #48
arjvik wrote: post #36

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10, actually

Every base is base 10 ;) https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1czson4/eve...

Wouldn't 64 in base64 be represented as = ? (and not 10). Love the comic!
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