Posted on 09/22/2009 4:06:41 AM PDT by decimon
September 22, 2009 -- Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The advance was made possible by a clever technique for multiplying large numbers. The numbers involved are so enormous that if their digits were written out by hand they would stretch to the moon and back. The biggest challenge was that these numbers could not even fit into the main memory of the available computers, so the researchers had to make extensive use of the computers' hard drives.
According to Brian Conrey, Director of the American Institute of Mathematics, "Old problems like this may seem obscure, but they generate a lot of interesting and useful research as people develop new ways to attack them."
(Excerpt) Read more at aimath.org ...
Don’t be obtuse.
Kinda early for being so acute.
But I have acute face ... one that is a very good fit for radio
They should just contact the CBO - they are quite adept at solving computational problems with very large numbers.
Cheers!
Reminds me of the one about the English guy. His doctor told him his wife has acute agina and...
I was right. All that math I learned in school and I’ve used none of it beyond balancing the checkbook.
Hold on a secant, we’re going off on a tangent here.
Only tangentially interesting.
Ok. Enough. Time to sine off.
my father in law tells us that very joke every time he visits, been telling it the pst 20 years to us... i think its the only punchline he remebers ....
lol
Hey .. your real name isn’t Phil is it? Like Phil in the blank, Phil Dirt, Clean Phil, Philip Free .... ughhh
2/3 of a pun is PU ... and with that I must do something constructive with my day ...... Full PHIL ment is a wonderful thing.
Now if we could only teach father in law, Phil, a new punch line .. We have had our Phil. Phil has a brother in law, Ben as in Ben Dover ... yikes, gorundhog day all over. Help Mr. Bill. This is your fault, you started it.
Don’t you mean log off?
I like to work all the angles, but I’m usually right.
Bad puns growing exponentially...never a good sine.
That would be bad. Our outlook on these angles would start looking very oblique.
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Thanks grey_whiskers!Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The advance was made possible by a clever technique for multiplying large numbers. The numbers involved are so enormous that if their digits were written out by hand they would stretch to the moon and back. The biggest challenge was that these numbers could not even fit into the main memory of the available computers, so the researchers had to make extensive use of the computers' hard drives.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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