alt.hn

6/21/2026 at 5:58:49 PM

Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft

https://primecrunch.com/blog/2/hunting-million-digit-primes-from-my-loft

by andyhedges

6/24/2026 at 1:33:49 PM

> If you ran SETI@home or Folding@home back when that was a thing

SETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary

by moebrowne

6/24/2026 at 5:00:09 AM

Could you make the tracking a little bit better for the website? I turned off my machine but it is still saying "Active" and the compute time keeps increasing on the website.

by sudo_cowsay

6/24/2026 at 8:51:14 AM

Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?

by zkmon

6/24/2026 at 3:00:04 PM

Very large primes are not a particularly useful result.

The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.

by ChucklsTheBeard

6/24/2026 at 3:35:50 AM

seems fun. like boinc. i wish there was more boinc.

by sudo_cowsay