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  • K Klaus
    21 Oct 2024, 20:08

    It is prime only because Chuck Norris decided that it is.

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    Mik
    wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 20:11 last edited by
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    @Klaus 😆

    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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    • J jon-nyc
      21 Oct 2024, 16:26

      Good luck using your program on a number with over 41,000,000 digits.

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      Tom-K
      wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 20:55 last edited by
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      @jon-nyc said in Not to brag or anything …:

      Good luck using your program on a number with over 41,000,000 digits.

      I do it with my program at least twice daily. Once I got it up to 328,000,000 digits. But I forgot to write the number down. 😞

      Flushing the toilet is like practicing the piano; you just cannot go too long without doing it.--Axtremus

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      • B bachophile
        21 Oct 2024, 19:34

        41,000,000 is chicken feed when compared to infinity.

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        taiwan_girl
        wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 00:51 last edited by
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        @bachophile said in Not to brag or anything …:

        when compared to infinity.

        what is infinity +1? 🤔

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          89th
          wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 13:14 last edited by
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          I bet in 100 years this will be like discovering 1+1=2. With quantum computing, such calculations should be nearly immediate. Then again maybe my expectations are too high. I'm also expecting within 20 years that AI will be able to accurately translate bird sounds into words. (no kidding)

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          • 8 89th
            22 Oct 2024, 13:14

            I bet in 100 years this will be like discovering 1+1=2. With quantum computing, such calculations should be nearly immediate. Then again maybe my expectations are too high. I'm also expecting within 20 years that AI will be able to accurately translate bird sounds into words. (no kidding)

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            wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 13:29 last edited by
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            @89th said in Not to brag or anything …:

            I'm also expecting within 20 years that AI will be able to accurately translate bird sounds into words. (no kidding)

            I had a friend who did some work translating Chinese TV/movies, etc into English captions for Netflix. That has decreased quite a bit.

            I used to do real time translation but I also see that will decrease in the future.

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            • 8 89th
              22 Oct 2024, 13:14

              I bet in 100 years this will be like discovering 1+1=2. With quantum computing, such calculations should be nearly immediate. Then again maybe my expectations are too high. I'm also expecting within 20 years that AI will be able to accurately translate bird sounds into words. (no kidding)

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              Klaus
              wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 14:39 last edited by
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              @89th said in Not to brag or anything …:

              With quantum computing, such calculations should be nearly immediate.

              Nope.

              Quantum computing, even if it ever works, won't help with finding larger primes.

              Only some very specific problems are theoretically sped up by quantum computers.

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                wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 14:51 last edited by
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                Yeah, computing primes is just a matter of dividing by all the possibilities and seeing if there is a remainder. And of course computers do not actually divide, they subtract a given number of times.

                "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                  Doctor Phibes
                  wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 15:47 last edited by
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                  In 20 years we won’t be allowed to look for primes because of the fear of upsetting all the other numbers

                  I was only joking

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                  • T taiwan_girl
                    22 Oct 2024, 00:51

                    @bachophile said in Not to brag or anything …:

                    when compared to infinity.

                    what is infinity +1? 🤔

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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 15:53 last edited by
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                    @taiwan_girl said in Not to brag or anything …:

                    @bachophile said in Not to brag or anything …:

                    when compared to infinity.

                    what is infinity +1? 🤔

                    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                    • M Mik
                      22 Oct 2024, 14:51

                      Yeah, computing primes is just a matter of dividing by all the possibilities and seeing if there is a remainder. And of course computers do not actually divide, they subtract a given number of times.

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                      wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 16:33 last edited by
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                      @Mik said in Not to brag or anything …:

                      Yeah, computing primes is just a matter of dividing by all the possibilities and seeing if there is a remainder. And of course computers do not actually divide, they subtract a given number of times.

                      You and @Klaus definitely know more than me about primes!

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                      • M Mik
                        22 Oct 2024, 14:51

                        Yeah, computing primes is just a matter of dividing by all the possibilities and seeing if there is a remainder. And of course computers do not actually divide, they subtract a given number of times.

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                        Klaus
                        wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 17:24 last edited by
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                        @Mik said in Not to brag or anything …:

                        And of course computers do not actually divide, they subtract a given number of times.

                        No, that would be way too slow. There are many many algorithms for efficient division of integer numbers, such as the Karatsuba algorithm or Newton-Raphson Division.

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                        • T taiwan_girl
                          22 Oct 2024, 00:51

                          @bachophile said in Not to brag or anything …:

                          when compared to infinity.

                          what is infinity +1? 🤔

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                          Klaus
                          wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 17:28 last edited by
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                          @taiwan_girl said in Not to brag or anything …:

                          @bachophile said in Not to brag or anything …:

                          when compared to infinity.

                          what is infinity +1? 🤔

                          If you view numbers as ordinals, infinity + 1 is just yet another ordinal, and it is greater than infinity and smaller than infinity + 2.

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                            wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 17:35 last edited by
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                            And if you really, really, really want to do integer division with quantum computing:

                            https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1432167

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