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dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
> nsmith@tms390.micro.ti.com (Neal Smith) writes:
> }jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein) writes:
> }
> }>You know, it occured to me that, taken as a whole, the Internet is
> }>the most powerful supercomputer in the world, if you include in the 
> }>system the minds linked by it.
> }
> }Unfortunately, it's also correspondingly slow... :v)
> 
> Too much thrashing...

Right.  Wasn't there a factorization of a large (Fermat?) number organized
through the Internet?  Can someone give the story?  Thanks.

ralf
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