Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:53:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) Cc: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MASM, and coff, and elf, oh my! Message-ID: <199608012253.PAA24608@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <m0um5Pq-0008umC@agora.rdrop.com> from Gary Hanson at "Aug 1, 96 02:36:22 pm"
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According to Gary Hanson: > [[ ... ]] > > BTW, the app is George Woltman's mersenne-prime search program, and > it'd be nice to have some BSD systems using spare cycles to look for > the largest prime number in the world. :-) > > If we could do this, if someone could spare his system for a few months [[ ??? ]] finding a new mersenne prime would cause major excitement. The last mersenne prime that I know of beind discovered was done by Dave Slowinski at Cray Research in Chippewa Falls, WI. ...I think I was still at Cray when Dave found the prime. gary PS: (And then again, several larger mersenne primes may have been found since then... ) > > <><> "There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring: Impatience and Laziness." -- Franz Kakfa
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