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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Oct 15, 2009 10:24:24 GMT
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Post by kitty on Oct 15, 2009 22:23:09 GMT
Erm... I'm probably ignorant but wth is the point in a stupidly long number? Why pay money for this? Oh well..
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Post by Hand-E-Food on Oct 15, 2009 23:25:23 GMT
Erm... I'm probably ignorant but wth is the point in a stupidly long number? Why pay money for this? Oh well.. Prime numbers are a key part of encryption and digital security. Twelve million digits might be more than we ever need, but who knows. A friend of mine is researching computer technology that will be able to crack encryption in seconds. Twelve million digits might be what they need to keep things secure. |
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Post by kitty on Oct 16, 2009 0:21:10 GMT
Sad world that needs ridiculous numbers to secure private data.
But probably a cool job
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Post by twoheadedragon on Oct 16, 2009 4:38:34 GMT
Ah, "the largest prime number" keeps on being discovered every couple a' years. We're at 12 million digits now eh? Cool.  @ Kitty: Gives the nerds something to do that's time consuming, and that they can get sponsored for. ;D |
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Post by kitty on Oct 16, 2009 9:52:25 GMT
Well I'm all for nerds, you see but can't they do something a little cooler, like crating the worlds hardest rubiks cube?  |
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Post by twoheadedragon on Oct 16, 2009 11:17:54 GMT
Well I'm all for nerds, you see but can't they do something a little cooler, like crating the worlds hardest rubiks cube? I'm sure some nerds are doing that somewhere, but they probably aren't being paid all that much for their efforts. ;D I'm all for nerds too, but what I was referring to is how every nerd's dream (I'm talking about 100% nerds here) job would be to be being paid to be able to use a computer all day.  |
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Post by LaFille on Oct 16, 2009 15:28:37 GMT
I'm all for nerds too, but what I was referring to is how every nerd's dream (I'm talking about 100% nerds here) job would be to be being paid to be able to use a computer all day. Well, there's an easy job for that; it's called spamming. Not so glorious, but uses a computer all day and seems to pay according to my trashbox.  |
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Post by kitty on Oct 16, 2009 17:05:06 GMT
I'm officially a nerd than - using a PC for work all day ^^ ( I'm NOT a pro-spammer! xD)
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Post by twoheadedragon on Oct 17, 2009 4:06:18 GMT
I'm officially a nerd than - using a PC for work all day ^^ ( I'm NOT a pro-spammer! xD) Well then, I'm only part-nerd since most of my work is field work, and the total time I spend on a computer every day (work + gaming + browsing) amounts to an average of less than 2 hours daily... |
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Post by kitty on Oct 18, 2009 1:05:25 GMT
^ In two hours I hardly checked all the forums, news-feeds, blogs and social network sites that I 'have' to check out lol
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Post by twoheadedragon on Oct 18, 2009 20:05:11 GMT
^ In two hours I hardly checked all the forums, news-feeds, blogs and social network sites that I 'have' to check out lol Well... 2 hours not counting the middle-of-the-night/wee-hours-of-the-morning occasional browsing... |
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