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- From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Internet supercomputer (WAS: Re: Elements ending in H)
- Message-ID: <2b0da072wnr070@ark.abg.sub.org>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:35
- References: <Bxxz8z.Ft@techbook.com>
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- dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
- > nsmith@tms390.micro.ti.com (Neal Smith) writes:
- > }jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein) writes:
- > }
- > }>You know, it occured to me that, taken as a whole, the Internet is
- > }>the most powerful supercomputer in the world, if you include in the
- > }>system the minds linked by it.
- > }
- > }Unfortunately, it's also correspondingly slow... :v)
- >
- > Too much thrashing...
-
- Right. Wasn't there a factorization of a large (Fermat?) number organized
- through the Internet? Can someone give the story? Thanks.
-
- ralf
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