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2^43,112,609 -1: Distributed computing finds largest prime yet

GIMPS â€" the distributed computing Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search â€" has found and confirmed the largest prime number ever: 243,112,609-1. It has 13 million digits and gives the GIMPS project a $100,000 award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Science News reports. Because 243,112,609-1 has...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Prime, Distributed Computing, Mersenne, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-28

Prime95 24.14 (Windows)

Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the number 10 is not prime because it is divisible...

Tags: Prime, GIMPS, Mersenne, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-08-09

Primer 1.6 (Mac)

Primer lets you find a list of primes or twin primes, a single prime or set of twin primes, check the primality of a number, find a number's prime factorizaion, and has two functions related to Goldbach's conjecture.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Prime, Conjecture, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-06-09

Additional Resources

Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

AOL ditches the triangle; previews new brand identity, logos

Those are some ugly logos, I do hope they go with something better and more appealing to the eye.RE: AOL ditches the triangle; previews new brand identity, logosWhy? What's wrong with their initial logo? It wouldbe something akin to Chevy putting a Ford logo on its' cars. ...

Tags: Branding, LSD, America Online Inc., new brand identity, brand identity, brand

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

AOL: Will Armstrong get any honeymoon?

Time to send out some free AOL signup disks ntntGood Bye AOLThe sooner AOL is just a shadow in the rear-view-mirror of technological history, the better.Since day one they were a success because of aggressive marketing not due to providing anything of any value to their customers.When they bought Time...

Tags: Transportation, America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Adding a Wizard to your Magic Mouse

you're nuts.Multi touch on a laptop trackpad is IMO the single best thing about apple hardware. It is not illogical that this tech should show up in a mouse as well. Clearly, you haven't tried it. It works quite well and there is no "contortion" needed.Dumbest... mouse... everJust because something...

Tags: Mice, mouse, Magic Mouse

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Jabra Stone

Not many Bluetooth headsets combine style and performance, and when they do, they stand out. Examples include the Aliph Jawbone Prime, the BlueAnt Q1, and the Plantronics Discovery 975. Jabra, a company that has been in the Bluetooth business a long time, attempts to come up with yet another headset...

Tags: headset, Jabra, Stone

Product reviews 2009-11-17

Toshiba Satellite E105-S1802

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.Toshiba's latest Blue Label laptop from Best Buy, the Satellite E105-S1802, is an exact replica of the company's earlier Satellite E105-S1602 model with one...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, laptop computer, satellite, battery

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier

Vive Le Resistance!Michael - Resistance to Change, Immunity to Change - there is a lot of activity on the "real work" beyond tech and into enacting and leveraging change agents of Enterprise 2.0 lately... great that we're all surfacing these issues in increasingly large forums.For a bit more flavor on...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, transparency, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

GOOG could lose more than Murdoch

Thanks, this was insightfulWhat if Murdoch and minions stroke a deal with a more desperate Google competitor - and blocked Google. That would be a very real threat. If users suddenly finds that Google returns fewer quality results than competitors, Google could lose search share, fast. That would strike directly...

Tags: Operational accounting, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

GNOME delays 3.0 release

normal people use kde anywaygnome should never have existed at all, it's just a waste of developers time.they should have join XFCE and KDE projects.KDE 4.3 ....Just plain stinks ... not ready for prime time.Me, I prefer 3.5.10 ...kde 4.3. doesn't stinkyou are just spoiled by the extremly high standards...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GNOME, KDE, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Prime Number Spiral 8.24 (Windows)

The Prime Number Spiral (a.k.a. the Ulam Spiral) is constructed as follows: Consider a rectangular grid. We start with the central point and arrange the positive integers in a spiral fashion anticlockwise. The prime numbers are then marked. There is a tendency for the prime numbers to occur on diagonal...

Tags: Integer, Spiral, Hermetic Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Factorizer 10.34 (Windows)

Factorizer is a Windows program to find factors of numbers up to 2,147,483,646 and to find primes, pairs of primes and Palmen colors of numbers. Or in more detail, Factorizer may be used: (1) to get the prime decomposition of all numbers in a range of numbers, (2) to get...

Tags: Factor, Hermetic Systems, Factorizer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon (Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon)

I Want It More than Everrrrr! Awesome! Verizon is Best Service! :DI was going to wait, but this phone looks totally ready for prime time!Moto has put out some of the toughest phones out there and no other single phone has even approached the numbers of Razr out there! Still...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Communications Inc., phone, Revisiting, Motorola Droid, Motorola Inc., Moto

Discussion threads 2009-11-07

Math Ref Free for iPhone 2.1.2 (Mobile)

Math Ref Free for iPhone gives you about 350 of the many helpful formulas, figures, tips, and examples. The current categories in the free version are algebra, geometry, trigonometry, series and sequences, derivatives, integration, prime numbers, and Greek alphabet.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Happy Maau Studios, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Math Ref for iPhone 2.1 (Mobile)

Math Ref for iPhone is a math reference application that includes over 1,000 helpful formulas, figures, tips, and examples of the equations, and concepts. Current main categories include algebra, geometry, trigonometry, linear algebra, series and sequences, derivatives, integration , table of integrals, vector calculus, differential equations, discrete, physics, prime numbers,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Algebra, Happy Maau Studios, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Stainless 0.75 (Mac)

Stainless is a multi-process browser for OS X Leopard. Although Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase our own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome, we've been inspired by our growing fanbase to forge ahead and craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser. In fact, Stainless now has...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mesa Dynamics, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient

RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, gasoline engine, disk, diesel, combustion, turbine, battery

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Diablo II Update Patch 1.12a (Mac)

In Diablo II, players return to a dark world plagued by evil forces. After possessing the body of the hero who defeated him, Diablo resumes his nefarious scheme to shackle humanity into unholy slavery by joining forces with the other Prime Evils, Mephisto and Baal. Players face a new series...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Player, Blizzard, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-30