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It gets better the longer it runs (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We got nerd sniped at almost the exact same time, but approached this in very different ways. I applaud your practical approach, but based on what I calculated, you should stop now. It will never reach 99.999%

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whew. I'm only going for 99.5%, which according to your other comment is doable!... But impractical

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

99.5% would still be e^200 numbers checked (7x10^86). According to the Quora link in my other comment, we've only calculated primes in sequence up to 4x10^18 as of 7 years ago. 95% is very doable though.

Edited to correct first N primes vs primes up to N.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Incredible amounts of numbers. Crazy.