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« on: February 28, 2011, 11:57:54 pm »
I think it should also be a small range that a server assigns you at a time. Running nonstop on my computer http://ourl.ca/9218/175045 with four instances it would take me four days to get through a 32 bit range on the C# version. For the asm version I am expecting about twelve hours on my system.
527
« on: February 28, 2011, 11:50:42 pm »
Ah ok.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link or in other words, a file that represents another file. So with symbolic linking you can have the file /home/eeems/some_folder/this_file but with a symbolic link to it located at /link_to_file you can just reference /link_to_file to access it. Symbolic links to directories are also nice 
Is that basically a shortcut on windows systems?
528
« on: February 28, 2011, 09:28:29 pm »
According to this chart from my school, it shouldn't be too hard for me to get in, but I'm only a sophomore  
529
« on: February 28, 2011, 09:17:31 pm »
I'll be going to Arizona State University in August.
That is a possible consideration for me now. I heard it was a party school though.  but my top choice is either the US Naval Academy or MIT. Both provide unlimited access to a supercomputer and the Naval Academy has a nuclear reactor I can mess around with. 
530
« on: February 28, 2011, 09:13:44 pm »
Just want to let everyone know that we will get this project done. It may seem unfeasible at first, but every test we go through is a chance to factor the rsa key. Everyday our progress will increase exponentially. We will get more users, we will get faster computers, and we will get faster programs. Even if this takes one year, two years, even ten years it will still be worth it. The 83+ came out twelve years ago and it is still the most popular calculator here. Twelve years from now people will still use the nspire. It may take a while, but it will be worth it. Update: My test count is now up to 270,000. 
531
« on: February 28, 2011, 08:47:17 pm »
@Ruler you can take that one step further, and eliminate roughly 69% of the numbers.
We could go even farther by using the sieve of eratosthenes to calculate a large range of primes first, then test only those primes.
532
« on: February 28, 2011, 03:09:42 am »
I'm working on a server now... what do you guys suppose that would be a good range length to begin with? I think a whole 512-bit range is a bit too much.
Is it feasible to complete Sir's current range. 100000000...
533
« on: February 28, 2011, 03:07:34 am »
The US system does vary a little bit from region to region. For my schooling it is:
Preschool: about 3 years (optional)
Kindergarten: age 5, one year
Elementary school: grades 1 -6
Middle school: grades 7-8
High school: grades 9-12, graduate age 18
College/university: 4 years optional
We also have levels used in high school for our classes.
honors is a more advanced version of that course
AP is an extremely advanced version of that course
IB is similar to AP
For me, I started going to a private Catholic school when I entered high school. The experience is quite different from public school, but you get a great education. These will be my courses for next year:
US history AP with Model UN
Physics 1 IB
Pre-calculus Honors
French 3 Honors
English 3
Religion 3
AP computer science
534
« on: February 28, 2011, 01:14:57 am »
How is everyone doing so far? I know it is not much in the grand scheme of everything, but in 4 hours I will be reaching 100,000 tests. Accounting for the time I use that computer, it should total out to be 7 million tests each month. When the optimized asm version comes out I'm predicting significant speed gains of up to 4x. I know the chances are slim, but we might... just factor the rsa key.
535
« on: February 28, 2011, 12:39:54 am »
I'm thinking about doing a robot that will map out a 3d grid of where it is and make decisions based off of that.
Goal: not to hit anything where it is mapping
Goal2: get an accurate 3d map that can be stored and retrieved.
Goal3: to not let the robot fall
Goal4: (Possible)Add color and more detail to the 3d map
I could think of many ways this could benefit people.(now I'll need an AI to run on it;)) Do you think this is a good idea?
I'm going to try and get a team of 3-4 people including me
I thought of a possible way to accomplish this involving infrared lights and lots of complex math. The problem though is that I believe this might take a pretty powerful computer to map. You could connect the robot to an outside server, but that would take away from its ability. But I might be wrong. If I was to to give this a go, I would just use my good old 84+ as the onboard server unless the math is too complex.
536
« on: February 27, 2011, 10:20:00 pm »
I wonder if you can remove the glass then.
537
« on: February 27, 2011, 10:18:47 pm »
Hopefully the son will be out on parole by next year.
538
« on: February 27, 2011, 09:39:04 pm »
Then could we be in the Guinness book of world records 
539
« on: February 27, 2011, 09:37:33 pm »
If we did factor the nspire RSA key, would that be the largest key ever factored before in history?
540
« on: February 27, 2011, 08:43:40 pm »
Even $200 computer monitors have this problem, it isn't that big a deal. However, if you can somehow get a program to quickly turn on and off the affected pixels, they sometimes fix themselves.
You could try that through BASIC first. @cfxm and if that doesn't work ask one of us SH3 coders to code a pixel flicker thing for you. We just need to know the coordinates.
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