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2 years agoWe 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%
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%
A few calculations:
1/ln(x)
.
Solving 99.9995 = 100 - 100 / ln(x)
for x gives e^200000
or 7.88 × 10^86858
. In other words, the universe will end before any current computer could check that many numbers.To be fair, I used to work there, and not even Microsoft understands their docs.
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 to4x10^18
as of 7 years ago. 95% is very doable though.Edited to correct first N primes vs primes up to N.