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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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359 points sdsykes | 5 comments | 16 Oct 24 11:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.71s | source
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jl6 ◴[19 Oct 24 06:27 UTC] No.41886027[source]▶
Finally! Just when I thought everyone had moved their spare compute to more lucrative schemes.

It’s the longest wait for a new mersenne prime since the discovery of M32 in 1992.

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1. noduerme ◴[19 Oct 24 06:54 UTC] No.41886149[source]▶
amazing how many bitcoins have been discovered since then. Satoshi should've incentivized mining something useful.
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2. yreg ◴[19 Oct 24 07:18 UTC] No.41886226[source]▶
Are these high Mersenne primes all that useful?
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3. iamgopal ◴[19 Oct 24 09:50 UTC] No.41886817[source]▶
every new prime for new block, but not linear.
4. gnramires ◴[19 Oct 24 20:12 UTC] No.41890416[source]▶
I've been thinking there should actually be more useful (or at least more interesting? :P) crowd computing stuff.

How about something like Superoptimizing (with correctness proofs) open source code?

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5. michaelcampbell ◴[20 Oct 24 12:18 UTC] No.41894855{3}[source]▶
I think there's actually a fair number of them, but more would be nice. Lots of protein folding ones, and there used to be a weather/climate related couple.