tyler o.,when I get pass you. John P. Myers will be next.
tyler o.,
Nice post and nice crunching on NFS, I have a UOTD for today at Numberfields that is factorization also, is there any difference between the several projects of number theory? Because they are so many, what is different the search, the method or any other thing?
Maybe you don't know either but I think someone inside the projects should know.
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First reading, that project has nothing to do with factorization.
Factorization is to factor a integer into two or more prime factors. Example: 15 is equal to 3 x 5, correct? 3 and 5 are one digit integers, prime numbers, only divisible by 1 or by themselves.
See it was easy. So in spite of what is being told that the projects do the same work and are duplicating the crunching to do exactly the same, that is not true. The work is very different and the conclusions are different tools to use in difference sciences.
No work is lost, they are not opening new projects to do the same work, no matter what it seems to us we don't have the enough knowledge to distinguish, what for us are small differences are completely different projects from the inside point of view.
A question of perspective. Thanks Carlos that was very useful.
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The only two math projects that I am aware of doing double work was GIMPS vs Mersenne@home, the latter is closed (it was a waste of energy due to lack of knowledge by crunchers side), and probably now http://oproject.goldbach.pl/index.php vs http://www.ieeta.pt/~tos/goldbach.html. In contact with our fellow Tomás Oliveira he can't tell me for sure if there's double work on the goldbach conjecture because the former project doesn't publish very well the results. So he has lots of doubts.
John P. Myers is down, next is theflux.
The original BOINC Goldbach project? It never actually did any real work. It was all UPPERCASE.
Was there another beside the ones I mentioned?Originally Posted by zombie67
No idea. But there is this one that that many of us have credit in (the one I referenced):
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=gol
3 and 5 are prime, but being 1 digit isn't part of it. 6 is a 1 digit composite number (divisable by 3 and 2), but 11 is a 2 digit number which can't be factored, hence prime. Prime Grid would be looking for some very large prime numbers.
As to the question asked, different math projects would be, testing different theories and the like. So no, they aren't all the same....
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