Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number
by swampthinker on Friday December 21, 2018 @09:01PM
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Perhaps they are related.
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Hehe
you mean like like each prime makes up one of the unique universal souls that exist throughout time and space?
whoa
The universe is likely a simulation, so a soul maybe a prime primary key and so use a Mersenne prime to save space as a form of compression because only n needs to be stored, not the full bitstring. The real question is: does the universe have microcode opcodes to operate on Mersenne primes natively without expanding them?
PS: Atheist ;)
Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number
by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:48PM
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If the universe is a simulation, isn't the programmer effectively God?
And: "Likely"? Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.
Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number
by bouncycastle on Saturday December 22, 2018 @11:21AM
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Good call. Well, if humans ever happen to create such a simulator themselves, will they effectively become God?
Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number
by AnimalMuppet on Saturday December 22, 2018 @02:16PM
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To the simulation, probably yes.