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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:30:22 -0000, Patrick Kristiansen
<patrick.kasserer@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/2/14, Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>:
>>
>> 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.

These days hardly anyone is ignorant enough to not know there are
infinitely many prime numbers. I was kidding.

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