Chapter 64: Elder Sun, take away your magical powers!
Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“Is there any problem with our system?” President Barlow looked at his programmers with suspicion.
"President, you have asked this question three times this week alone!" the programmer said aggrievedly.
"That's because just this week alone, Zhang Wei found three Mersenne primes! Are you sure there is no problem with our system?"
"President, there is really no problem with our system. You were also a first-class hacker back then. If you don't believe me, you can check it yourself!"
"Is that Zhang Wei also a hacker? He invaded our system. Then something was done, but we didn't notice it?" President Barlow asked conspiratorially.
“Even if our system is hacked, have all the supercomputers around the world been hacked? If the Mersenne prime number found by the Chinese can pass the test of the supercomputer, then there is no problem.”< br>
The programmer paused and then continued: "No one can hack the supercomputers in the world. So I personally prefer that the Chinese have achieved breakthrough results in the scientific research on Mersenne prime numbers."
"Can the Chinese people lead the world in mathematical research? Haha..." President Barlow shook his head disdainfully.
At this time, the secretary knocked on the door again and came in.
"President, that Chinese Zhang Wei has sent another email!"
"I know, tell him and I will give him fifty thousand US dollars." President Barlow He waved his hand impatiently.
"President, this time it is one hundred thousand US dollars. The 45th Mersenne prime number has exceeded ten million digits. According to our previous promise, we have to pay one hundred thousand US dollars." The secretary said .
“One hundred thousand is one hundred thousand. Since it is a public promise, it must be fulfilled.”
"But President, our funds may not be enough. We have already paid 200,000 US dollars for the four Mersenne primes we found before, and now we have to pay another 300,000 US dollars. And our funds for the GIMPS project are not that much!"
"What? No money?" President Barlow was startled.
According to past practice, it takes more than a year to find a Mersenne prime number, which means that only $50,000 in funding is needed a year to continue the reward mechanism for finding Mersenne prime numbers.
But Zhang Wei found five Mersenne primes in three weeks, and one had tens of millions of digits. He made away with 300,000 US dollars in one fell swoop, clearing out the six-year prize pool.
The secretary continued: "In just one week, Zhang Wei has found three Mersenne primes. If he wants to find three more next week, we don't have 300,000 US dollars to pay him."< br>
Dare you not give me money? Then the GIMPS project will be scrapped tomorrow!
Without the drive of economic interests, who would waste their computer resources to install burn-in software and calculate some bullshit Mersenne prime numbers, because they don’t think the computer will crash?
But if you give money, the funds will be tight. Lack of money is a very real problem.
"Our funds are actually insufficient, and they were all wiped out by one person!" President Barlow felt a sense of absurdity in his heart.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was originally a hacker organization, and it was a hacker organization that dared to trouble Zuckerberg. Even the FBI had nothing to do with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Such a hacker organization was actually wiped out by a mathematician?
What a joke of the century!
“No, we can’t let Zhang Wei continue to look for new Mersenne primes!”
President Barlow thought for a while and said, “I will reply to Zhang Wei’s email this time. Reply to him personally and see if you can discuss with him and ask him not to release new Mersenne primes for the time being.”
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"I'm making money, I'm making money, and I don't even know how to spend it. I have a Nokia in my left hand and a Motorola in my right hand..."
Zhang Wei hummed this divine song in Jiaodong dialect, which was quite a bit like Huang Bo's. déjà vu.
When I walked into the dormitory, the autistic person was not there, only Ye Haotian was dismantling the computer.
"Where is Chen Ming? I haven't seen him all day!" Zhang Wei asked.
“I was called over again by the Department of Materials! I heard that the Department of Physics also tore out graphene according to your method, and it was also torn out by Chen Ming. After hearing this, Professor Wu from the Department of Materials ran away immediately I went to find Professor Fang to borrow someone. Chen Ming should be tearing off tape in the materials department now!”
"Professor Wu said he wanted to borrow someone, so Professor Fang just borrowed it?"
"It's not like you don't know that Professor Fang and Professor Wu should wear the same pair of pants."
Zhang Wei looked at the chassis that had been dismantled by Ye Haotian again, and then asked: "What are you doing? The computer is broken?"
"It's all your fault! I also went to the GIMPS official website to download Prime95, and the result was It blew up my computer and now I can’t start it!”
“You broke the computer yourself, why do you blame me!” “If you hadn’t found a few Mersenne primes, I might have downloaded this. Prime95!" Concubine Ye's tone was a bit coquettish.
"Then you can use my computer first! Anyway, next month, I have to go back to my hometown, and the college entrance examination is coming soon. I have to review it! If the score is too high, it will be embarrassing!" Zhang Wei He spoke.
Concubine Ye explained: "This year is to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the May 4th Movement. I will be a student representative and have to speak. The speech scripts are all in my computer and cannot be repaired. If it’s good, you have to rewrite the speech.”
“Then you can fix it slowly. If it doesn’t work, just change the hard drive to my computer and you won’t lose the speech.”
Zhang Wei said, opened his computer and saw the email from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
"This year's funding is insufficient, so I beg you not to release new Mersenne primes? What kind of trouble is this? There are only five Mersenne primes, and there is no money?
If you don't have the money, don't brag like that Big cow! If you can't hold it any longer, don't shout. Elder Sun, it's not shameful to accept your magical power!
Hey, the road to wealth that you finally found is broken again, look. It’s not easy to come to the Americans. Forget it, I’ll spare you this one time. I’ll take my magical powers for now and wait until I’m short of money.”
So Zhang Wei replied to the Electronic Frontier Foundation by email. , agreed to the other party’s request.
Now Zhang Wei has released the 45th Mersenne prime number. According to the speed of technological development, it is impossible for a new Mersenne prime number to appear before 2008.
The 45th Mersenne prime number reaches 11 million digits. With the computing power of a home computer in 2004, it would be difficult to calculate such a large number.
The 46th Mersenne prime was not discovered until 2008, because in November 2007, Intel released the Core 2 generation quad-core processor, which greatly improved the computing power of computers. Only then can we find the 46th Mersenne prime.
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Zhang Wei came to the Mathematics Department carrying two bottles of Moutai and knocked on Professor Zhuge’s office.
Seeing Zhang Wei, Professor Zhuge thought he was here to hand over public food, and subconsciously asked: "Have you discovered a new Mersenne prime number again?"
"I just received an email from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the United States, saying that they have insufficient funds. Even if they find a new Mersenne prime number, they can't afford it!" Zhang Wei said.
"You should keep looking for Mersenne primes even if you don't give me money! Is it possible that you are looking for Mersenne primes just for money?"
"Of course it is for money! If you don't give me money, what kind of Mersenne primes are you looking for? !”
“Even if you don’t pay, you should continue searching for the sake of mathematics! Why are you young people so utilitarian?” Professor Zhuge said dissatisfied.
"Professor, I am different from you. You are a professor and have a salary. I am a poor student and I have no salary. I must not look at money!"
"You have the wrong idea. If you only spend money, who will do scientific research in a down-to-earth manner, and how can you be a scientist?"
"I don't want to be a scientist at all, I want to be a rich waste, every day Eat, drink and have fun!”
“No, I heard Dean Shen mentioned that your ideal is to make chips!”
“Then make the chips first and then treat them as waste!” Zhang Wei said, handed over two bottles of Moutai, and then said: "Professor, thanks to your care during this period, I bought you two bottles of Moutai."
"A bonus of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Just give me two bottles of Maotai? How stingy!”
Professor Zhuge said he was stingy, but he smiled and took Maotai over, and then said to Zhang Wei: "Xiao Zhang, go to the door and help me see if there is anyone waiting."
"There are people waiting." ? This is the Department of Mathematics, and we are all your students. What kind of people are there waiting for you?" Zhang Wei walked to the door in confusion. The corridor outside was very clean.
At this time, the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets came from Professor Zhuge’s office.
When Zhang Wei turned around, he found that the two bottles of Maotai had disappeared.
“You dare to push me away and secretly hide two bottles of Maotai! You are guarding against me! What’s the matter? I gave you the things, and you are afraid that I will steal them back!”
Zhang Wei felt that Professor Zhuge's behavior was a bit funny, so he said: "Professor, this is your own office. Why do I feel like you are a thief?"
"You don't know, my daughter, Don't let me drink. Don't I have to be secretive?"
Professor Zhuge changed his voice and continued: "How about you go to my house and have a drink with me tonight? If there are guests, my daughter will be here. At least I can have a few sips.”
Zhang Wei thought for a while, why is the Maotai he bought cheaper than Mr. Zhuge, at least he can take a few sips and get his money back!
And Professor Zhuge’s daughter has 170cm long legs, white skin, and has practiced aerobics!
This must not be known to anyone!
Some book friends said that we should say "pulling out wool". I think it is more painful to pluck out, but it is more refreshing to lick out. "Pull out bald skin" is definitely not as shocking as "pulling out bald skin". Tomorrow is Monday again, and the third round of recommendations is still the same. The first four days of reading are the most important. I also hope that you guys can help me and give me some advice to continue reading. Thank you for passing!
(End of this chapter)