Could you make the tracking a little bit better for the website? I turned off my machine but it is still saying "Active" and the compute time keeps increasing on the website.
zkmon 2 days ago [-]
Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?
mpreda 1 days ago [-]
The largest known prime could be considered a universal scientific benchmark.
It is also a concise statement that is trivial to verify.
(by "trivial" meaning much much easier to verify than to discover in the first place)
ChucklsTheBeard 2 days ago [-]
Very large primes are not a particularly useful result.
The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.
sudo_cowsay 2 days ago [-]
seems fun. like boinc. i wish there was more boinc.
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SETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary
It is also a concise statement that is trivial to verify.
(by "trivial" meaning much much easier to verify than to discover in the first place)
The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.