Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice 51
An anonymous reader writes Last week, Riecoin – a project that doubles as decentralized virtual currency and a distributed computing system — quietly broke the record for the largest prime number sextuplet. This happened on November 17, 2014 at 19:50 GMT and the calculation took only 70 minutes using the massive distributed computing power of its network. This week the feat was outdone and the project beat its own record on November 24, 2014 at 20:28 GMT achieving numbers 654 digits long, 21 more than its previous record.
'Sextuplets' (Score:5, Funny)
Re:'Sextuplets' (Score:5, Informative)
I always thought 'sextuplets' were what you called nymphomaniac twin sisters!
Twin is two. Sex is 6.
A sextuplet is a tight-nit group of 6; typically used to refer to the birth of 6 kids together.
In the case of primes; it is 6 primes found sequentially which are very close to each other, where the largest prime is within 16 units distance of the smallest of the 6 primes.
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Sex is 6.
You're wrong, though: I had sex with them more than six times! *drum hit*
:-)
Thanks for being my 'straight man', friend!
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I think you missed the joke. Entirely.
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A sextuplet is a tight-knit group of 6; typically used to refer to the birth of 6 kids together.
I guess that's why they call it "nitpicking".
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But what does it REALLY mean?
WTF is a prime sextuplet?
A number made of six factored prime numbers?
What is it used for?
That would be way more interesting than "Random virtual coin network used to calculate some shit."
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So it's not 6 consecutive odd numbers that happen to be prime. That's impossible because of the multiples of 3 and 5. This is the lowest sextuplet: 3 5 7 11 13 17 19.
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...which has, oddly, seven numbers.
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Let me see... the smallest sextuplet is from 3 to 17 but this is not a sextuplet because max - min != 16. I don't want to prove already proved theorems (nor google them) but probably the extremes of a sextuplet made of large numbers must be separated by 16 because of the multiples of 2 3 5 and 7. Maybe there are occasionally more packed sequences of 6 primes but maybe there aren't past some not too large number. Again, it's either a theorem proved by somebody else or some already made conjecture
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Re: your car analogy is umm close. (Score:3)
It's like there is this long, infinite road and along this road are mile markers and every so often one of these mile markers has a rest stop at it. Mile marker 3, 5, 9, and so on. The farther your drive however the more you notice how spread out these rest stops are, eventually having thousands upon thousands of miles between them. Then, as in this article, you discover a pack of six rest stops very close to each other when all the other ones were thousands of mile markers apart. Thats probably the closest I can get this to a car analogy.
There are rest stops at 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and so on, but 9 is not a rest stop. The first two overlapping sets of six rest stops aren't spaced the same as the rest, and thus don't have the same mathematical properties. The Riecoin compliant prime sextuplets, err, I mean rest stops on the infinite highway are {7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23} and {97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113}, except they are too small for cryptography.
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Obviously not.. What about 27? Or 77? Neither of these are prime.
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So... is that meant to be funny?
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It's not funny, actually, she just mis-typed, she meant every number ending in 5 is prime since 5 itself is odd and prime - it's a proof called the lemmings red herring...
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Errr... is that meant to be funny?
Maybe I'm missing something, but stating mathematical falsities is not, in and of itself, funny.
It's a waste of my time every time I make an effort with you ACs, really...
Wow (Score:1)
What thoroughly useless information. Maybe the dice deals page has something better.
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What thoroughly useless information. Maybe the dice deals page has something better.
Don't be such a curmudgeon. While this inset really "stuff that matters" it's definitely "news for nerds."
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*woooosh*
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*whooooosh*
Slashdotted already?! (Score:3)
For a network with such "massive distributed computing power", that's some pathetic servers they've got there.
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Feel free to donate any dogecoins you might have laying around for the procurement of a apocalypse-proof server.
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That's a nice idea.
A non-censored distributed forum ran for coin transactions I could have some interest in. Even better if it somehow could provide perfect anonymity.
Fuck the freedom haters.
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I suppose prime sextuplets are mostly just cool, because they're primes, and close to each other.
Who knows, they might have applications in cryptography, image compression or whatever.
It is possible that there are an infinite number of twin primes, but only a finite number of triplets/quadruplet/sextuplet.
This currency could be a way to find the biggest sextuplet, ONCE AND FOR ALL!
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press release mirror here [google.com]
and riecoin.org is back online
You couldn't've defined "prime sextuplet" in TFS? (Score:2)
Just sayin'.
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What is TFS?
The Fucking Summary.
I'm Impressed (Score:2)