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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by easytiger on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:01AM (#5170915)
why on earth would they run it as you user?
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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by Simucal on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:10AM (#5170980)
Several of us had root access to the few Linux boxes in the CS computer lab.
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