Would you install an app on your laptop/phone and keep it for 1 year to help find the next biggest prime number (no noticeable performance drop because of it)?
-
-
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I 'like' these posts because I want my 60 followers to think i'm smart.
-
Seems u are closer to getting 60 likes for your comment.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Are Mersenne primes equally useful for cryptography or have other weaknesses as well?
-
Mersenne primes are not really useful for cryptographic purposes. A single modular exponentiation modulo one of these primes can take hours, and using one as a factor in an RSA key is sort of a giveaway.
- 2 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
If we are finding "easy" primes, are there potentially huge prime numbers we've missed because they're not in this series?
-
Sure! By the prime number theorem, there are approximately 2^82589911 primes between the previous largest known prime and the new one.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
That’s odd.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
-
hah, and don't you guess why? hint: calculate how much bytes needed to store this number
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.