Not to brag or anything …
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wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 15:41 last edited by
@jon-nyc 555
I actually suspected it was 2^136279841 -2 was the largest prime. Oh well!!
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wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 16:01 last edited by
Calculating prime is easy. Wrote a program to do that in programming school.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 16:26 last edited by
Good luck using your program on a number with over 41,000,000 digits.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 19:34 last edited by
41,000,000 is chicken feed when compared to infinity.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 19:36 last edited by
I thought the GIMPS program was used for something else, entirely.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 20:08 last edited by
It is prime only because Chuck Norris decided that it is.
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wrote on 21 Oct 2024, 20:55 last edited by
@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.
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41,000,000 is chicken feed when compared to infinity.
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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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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)
wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 13:29 last edited by@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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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)
wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 14:39 last edited by@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
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, 15:47 last edited by
In 20 years we won’t be allowed to look for primes because of the fear of upsetting all the other numbers
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wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 15:53 last edited by
@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?
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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.
wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 16:33 last edited by@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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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.
wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 17:24 last edited by@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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wrote on 22 Oct 2024, 17:28 last edited by
@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
And if you really, really, really want to do integer division with quantum computing:
