This is only tangentially my field, but I’d expect the numbers themselves to be much less potentially useful than the algorithms needed to find them. Since GIMPS is just throwing FLOPs at the problem through established math, it doesn’t look like an especially good approach to me.
This is only tangentially my field, but I’d expect the numbers themselves to be much less potentially useful than the algorithms needed to find them. Since GIMPS is just throwing FLOPs at the problem through established math, it doesn’t look like an especially good approach to me.