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From: "Patrick Kristiansen" <patrick.kasserer@gmail.com>
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2008/2/14, Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>:
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> There is
> very little evidence to distinguish a loop striving to compute the largest
> prime number from a loop computing the factorial of 1234567890, an
> altogether more useless task :-)


I would say that trying to compute THE largest prime number would be quite
pointless.

-Patrick Kristiansen.

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/2/14, Eris Discordia &lt;<a href="mailto:eris.discordia@gmail.com">eris.discordia@gmail.com</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
 There is<br> very little evidence to distinguish a loop striving to compute the largest<br> prime number from a loop computing the factorial of 1234567890, an<br> altogether more useless task :-)</blockquote><div><br></div>
</div>I would say that trying to compute THE largest prime number would be quite pointless.<br><br>-Patrick Kristiansen.<br>

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