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Spokeo Aggregates Social Networks And Blogs Natali Del Conte 2005
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April 17, 2009 the search for mersenne primes helps mathematicians harness personal computers around the world to search for really large prime numbers
clusterflock 2009
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A nice feature of the PRNG in the statistics library is that it has a cleaner interface than mersenne-random.
Planet Haskell 2009
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As the numbers indicate, the MWC256 implementation in the statistics library is up to 3 times faster than the mersenne-random library, and often faster than the C code you'd expect to encounter in practice.
Planet Haskell 2009
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Photography and Culture Cross-Pollination mersenne The lost art of reading -- latimes. com
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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GIMPS harnesses the power of thousands of small computers like yours to search for these "needles in a haystack". www. mersenne.org as of 9 / 11 / 08.
Planet Sun bm_seer 2008
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The chance of finding a mersenne prime is pretty low, and takes about 2 months on a reasonably decent processor running 24 / 7 to confirm a single number.
Bosporan commented on the word mersenne
mersenne numbers are the series of numbers which are one less than a power of 2. Mersenne was a 17 cent mathematician monk. Mersenne primes are the subset of mersenne numbers which are prime - the first few being 3, 7, 31, 127 ... 47 of them have been discovered but it may be that there are an infinite number.
January 9, 2013