GS Chandy
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Re: Largest Known Prime Number Discovered
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Feb 14, 2013 12:57 AM
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Joe Niederberger posted Feb 14, 2013 8:20 AM:
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> GS Chandy wriets
> >may not be possible to answer in any meaningful way.
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> If you had said "reliably accurate" I could agree.
> Meaningfulness is something else.
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You're correct. Wrong word that, "meaningful" -- (it was, in fact, meaningless in that context!!)
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> But, look at the graph here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_known_prime_numbe
> r
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> Under some (perhaps unreliable) assumptions one may
> entertain the not unreasonable thought the trajectory
> shown here may persist for some time to come. Should
> the human race begin to falter before the forces
> maintaining the present trajectory are altered, then,
> it may be possible to even come close with an
> estimate! Of course, you wouldn't be able to check
> the answer ;-)
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> Cheers,
> Joe N
>
Fascinating! (Though I must confess the thinking about this is making my head spin).
Thanks,
GSC
Message was edited by: GS Chandy
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