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joshcryer

(62,276 posts) Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:57 AM Sep 2013

Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers

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Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers (Original Post) joshcryer Sep 2013 OP

Graph of number of digits in largest known prime by year ... DreamGypsy Sep 2013 #1

Just recently learned that Go is actually competitive now. joshcryer Sep 2013 #2

DreamGypsy

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1. Graph of number of digits in largest known prime by year ...

Reply to joshcryer (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 10:23 AM

Sep 2013

...since the advent of the electronic computer. Note that the vertical scale is logarithmic.

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)

2. Just recently learned that Go is actually competitive now.

Reply to DreamGypsy (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 10:27 AM

Sep 2013

Thanks to Zen19: http://gogameguru.com/tag/zen19/

Computation is becoming the solution to AI problems, not sure how I feel about that.

(Not to go too off topic but I think it's sort of on topic since computer computational power is finding these large megaprimes.)

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