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Seventeen or Bust
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Seventeen or Bust is a distributed computing project aimed at proving that 78557 is the smallest Sierpiński numbers. The Seventeen or Bust project has discovered some of the largest non-Mersenne primes, the most recent being
 discovered by Konstantin Agafonov. Over the past five years, it is estimated that the summatory of the frequencies of all the computer processors participating in the project is 47 teraHertz spread across almost a hundred thousand different computers operated by ten thousand different users.
There were seventeen different  to test when the project started; as of June 2007, only eight are left. The smallest  still being tested by the project is 10223, for which more than six hundred tests have been performed, while the largest  remaining is 69109.
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Cross-references: thousand, hundred, primes, project, distributed computing project
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This is version 3 of Seventeen or Bust, born on 2007-06-29, modified 2007-07-26.
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| AMS MSC: | 01A61 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: Twenty-first century) | | | 01A65 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: Contemporary) |
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