Quote from: bitg on July 19, 2013, 02:06:01 PM

Quote from: Taxidermista on July 19, 2013, 01:54:19 PM

Quote from: markm on July 19, 2013, 11:22:09 AM

There isn't enough data storage on earth, maybe not in the entire universe, to remember all primes

I didn't know there is a finite amount of primes.

That's indeed what's implied but i think he was only betrayed by the choice of words

OnT: I think Primecoin is a step in the right direction, i am bugged by the general pointlessness and waistness of mining cryptos. I am patiently waiting for a coin which can be actually useful and sets the miners in a cooperative spending of resources, currently this cooperativeness can only be achieved by mining in pools, which Primecoin lacks. But what i would like to see is this cooperation structuraly implemented, otherwise the waist in resources is crasy.

So maybe I should have written there is not an infinite amount of storage on Earth and maybe not in the universe.

I think I basically meant that we don't have enough compression / generation tools for primes yet to be able to practically be able to recall/regenerate them on demand. Maybe if we understood them better we'd have some kind of tool that would compress the information like the way various infinite series can be written in less than infinite amount of symbols. Calculus routinely adds up an infinite number of numbers, for example, whether or not the universe actually has room for that many numbers to actually be stored. It doesn't take in infinite amount of time to add them up, either.

-MarkM-