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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Jerry Gamblin wrote:
> "200,000 computers"
>
> I am calling this number out, there is no way they had this many
> computers looking for the number.
Really? Why not?
> At 500 MHZ processor per computer that is 10,000 GHZ of raw processing
> power.
If they were all turned on and fully dedicated to the job. I'll bet the
200,000 number comes from the number of computers that did *something* at
some time over the years.
Remember that "The number is 6,320,430 digits long," so they must have had
a *lot* of CPU power to verify that it was prime!
Mike
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