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Give a boffin a Xeon and a big GPU, get a new big prime number

David Roberts

What is the point?

I assume you get academic brownie points and bragging rights over your enormous shiny rig but what real value to science is yet another prime number?

I am assuming that however large you go there will always be a larger one.

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