Wieferich@Home
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Wieferich@Home is the Internet-based Distributed Computing (DC) Project searching for Wieferich primes. It is the first Czech DC project. The only known Wieferich primes are 1093 and 3511, found in 1913 and in 1922, respectively. It is not known, if there exist infinitely or finitely many Wieferich primes, or even if there exist only these two known. The project is included in number of lists of distributed computing projects. Everybody can participate in this problem by running a free application on own computer; the solution can be important in number theory, maybe also in cryptography.
[edit] Sources
- New @Home project, this time Czech and mathematical – ScienceWorld article (in Czech)
- The continuing search for Wieferich primes - paper about the recent search (Joshua Knauer a Jörg Richstein)
[edit] Links
- Wieferich@Home - the web page of the project
- On-line Encyklopedia of Integer Sequences - OEIS reference to the project
- Free DC - Distributed Computing Stats System
- Distributed Computing - active DC projects (mathematics
