New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)
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Re: New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)
#62Finally! Just when I thought everyone had moved their spare compute to more lucrative schemes. It’s the longest wait for a new mersenne prime since the discovery of M32 in 1992.
amazing how many bitcoins have been discovered since then. Satoshi should've incentivized mining something useful.
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#63Given this contest can presumably go on infinitely long, what is the ultimate point of the contest? Is there some kind of theoretical or practical benefit to discovering a new Mersenne prime?
>presumably go on infinitely long
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
If bitcoin used a facet of primality in its Proof-of-Work, that would nearly needlessly gloating. But it doesn't, and unfortunately even worse, it wasn't ASIC-resistant, which had second-order effects that Intel could had actually taken advantage of if they werent sleeping from being too comfortable.
This reminded me that I used to leave my computer running Folding@home or similar projects around 2010-2011. Not sure if it ever contributed to anything. If only I had known to run a Bitcoin miner instead!
Back in 2009-2010 I was responsible for deploying 8-16 core servers to customers to run large databases and ERPs. I had the idea of doing some burn in testing to stress the components for around a week for each server. Back then I was aware of bitcoin but also SETI@home. Obviously I chose the second option as I believed it was probable my a better choice for humans kind. It obviously was, but bitcoin mining would have been a better one for me.
Re: New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)
#65Finally! Just when I thought everyone had moved their spare compute to more lucrative schemes. It’s the longest wait for a new mersenne prime since the discovery of M32 in 1992.
amazing how many bitcoins have been discovered since then. Satoshi should've incentivized mining something useful.
Are these high Mersenne primes all that useful?
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#66Time for Bruce Schneier to change the combination to his luggage again
For anyone who didn't get the joke, this is a reference to https://www.schneierfacts.com/facts/365 from the "Bruce Schneier Facts" series (which was inspired by the "Chuck Norris Facts").
thank you for the education :) this is so good!
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#67lol, like the government doesn't have 3 more Mersennes they keep secret so they can verify potential First Contact situations
They're much easier to verify than to find. Just ask for the next one hundred unknown primes and check the response.
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#68If anyone is interested in knowing more, Veritasium has a good video on this, "The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math": https://youtu.be/Zrv1EDIqHkY
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
This reminded me that I used to leave my computer running Folding@home or similar projects around 2010-2011. Not sure if it ever contributed to anything. If only I had known to run a Bitcoin miner instead!
Back in 2009-2010 I was responsible for deploying 8-16 core servers to customers to run large databases and ERPs. I had the idea of doing some burn in testing to stress the components for around a week for each server. Back then I was aware of bitcoin but also SETI@home. Obviously I chose the second option as I believed it was probable my a better choice for humans kind. It obviously was, but bitcoin mining would hav…
I remember some rough calculations suggested I needed to upgrade from agp to pcie to make bitcoin mining worth it financially. I went with boinc instead.
Re: New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
If bitcoin used a facet of primality in its Proof-of-Work, that would nearly needlessly gloating. But it doesn't, and unfortunately even worse, it wasn't ASIC-resistant, which had second-order effects that Intel could had actually taken advantage of if they werent sleeping from being too comfortable.
Is there a good POW mechanism that would test primes? I found this but curious what else exists! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primecoin
There's also https://gapcoin.org/ for searching prime number gaps (mine the gap).