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    1 year ago

    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%

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        1 year ago

        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.