View Poll Results: When will seventeen or bust find its next prime?

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  • this month

    2 6.67%
  • within the next 3 months

    12 40.00%
  • within the next 6 months

    7 23.33%
  • within the next year

    6 20.00%
  • it will take longer than a year

    2 6.67%
  • seventeen or bust will never find a prime again!

    1 3.33%
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Thread: when will we find the next prime II

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    when will we find the next prime II

    I know we've had this once already, but as things have been rather quite in this forum lately I thought we could do it again. When will seventeen or bust find it's next prime?
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    I voted for "next 3 months". "This month" is pretty optimistic, isn't it?

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    yep, but not as optimistic as nutti here
    don't worry, nutti, I voted for this week in your poll, I think
    who knows, maybe one of the 2 primes I'm testing now is prime ...
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    I voted for "next 3 months".
    I think that too many people (including myself) were overly-optimistic when we found
    5 primes within a week. SB's "primeless streak" is normal (so far) since primes aren't
    that common among high n ranges. Hey, GIMPS sometimes went for more than a year without prime discoveries, so I don't think that people should be disappointed this early.

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    5 primes within a week
    I think it was a month...

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    Well, I voted "within the next year". This way I have the highest chance to be right -- even if the next one were found tomorrow...

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