That's the *length* of the number, not the number itself.
This reminds me of the last time a Mersenne prime was discovered. We
had a race, one downloaded the gz file of the number, and the other
calculated it. I think the calculation won, but I can't say for sure
anymore.
-- Alex McKenzie alex@boxchain.com http://www.boxchain.com "Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia." -- Ralph Nader Don't argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. Manuel Lora wrote: > umm.. 2 to the 3 million? i would expect the answer to be a lot larger > than that > > ml > > Petri Laihonen wrote: > >>>> It took about 15 minutes on my Athlon(tm) XP 2200+. Shoulda >>>> timed it. >>> >>> >>> I have a P4 1.4 Ghz machine. I was doing a few other things at the time >>> too... >>> >>> >>> Wed Jun 30 15:49:54 CDT 2004 >>> 903090 >>> Wed Jun 30 16:23:23 CDT 2004 >>> >>> >>> 33 minutes! >>> >> >> >> I like this kind of pissing contest where inferior machine beats the hell >> out of "superior" machines. >> >> My web server, >> AMD Duron ~ 1Ghz, >> while handling all the webstuff, emails, database etc.... for a bit under >> 100 domains calculated that same thing in : >> >> Surprise..... 131 seconds. (Roughly under 3 minutes.) >> >> I got the same result >> length: 903090 >> time: 131 >> >> Except I just used PHP from commandline. >> Could the language used really make that much of a difference? >> If yes, who would use such a slow language??? >> >> ___________________ >> Nolug mailing list >> nolug@nolug.org >> > > ___________________ > Nolug mailing list > nolug@nolug.org ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 06/30/04
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