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vato
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 Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:55 pm Post subject: Collatz Conjecture team |
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| I've created a team at the Collatz Conjecture since there wasn't one, and I needed something to keep my cheapo ATI HD4670 ticking along with... |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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What's the goal of this project?
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vato
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture, or put blindingly simply see http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/forum_thread.php?id=1
The real driver seems really to be development of GPGPU apps under BOINC.
I'm doing it cos I have a GPU with nothing much else to do, although I thought I might have a crack at MilkyWay, as it's the only other BOINC project that supports ATI cards, but it requires double-precision floating-point, which my HD4670 won't do - so this is the only game in town for me so far! |
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goobee
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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I think this man says it best:
| Quote: | | Paul Erdős said about the Collatz conjecture: "Mathematics is not yet ready for such confusing, troubling, and hard problems." |
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