"Ride on the road to glory, find the holy grail" :3

[Lunasole]

Hi guys. I remembered about this link and found it interesting enoght.
https://www.eff.org/awards/coop

To be short, they pay $150 000 if you found prime number which len is 100,000,000 and more digits ^^
Sounds crazy and it is crazy, the chances of doing this is so damn low and requiring so much calculations that I even will not take effort to estimate required time, it is impossible until you khow which real calculating speed you have.

But maybe it deceives a try? Some amount of machines running distributed daemon optimized with assembly and using GPUs power ^^
However it seems that some kind of very-very tricky shortcut required for success, the classical existing algorithms are really very slow and requiring years of huge computing power to success.
Maybe later I'll bring some code used in such calculations if some of it can be quickly ported to PB.


PS. http://42.com/ :3

[Lunasole]

Holy ... grail, today I looked at this all more seriously and realized how much computations it requires.
Should say It was just really stupid to imagine like it can be done by single man or using 30-100 modern machines (even those heavily optimized for BTC farming)

However there is always a small chance that you will really find a shortcut, but no one from lot of interested programmers and skilled mathematics not founded it yet. Well anyway this quest is very interesting by its own and I'll perform some tries as "hobby".