They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 64: Elder Sun, take away your magical powers!

Electronic Frontier Foundation.

"Is there any problem with our system?" President Barlow looked at his programmers with suspicion.

"President, you have asked this question three times this week alone!" the programmer said aggrievedly.

"That's because just this week alone, Zhang Wei found three Mersenne primes! Are you sure there is no problem with our system?"

"President, there is really no problem with our system. You were also a first-class hacker back then. If you don't believe me, you can check it yourself!"

"Is that Zhang Wei also a hacker? He invaded our system and then tampered with it, but we didn't find out?" President Barlow asked conspiratorially.

"Even if our system is hacked, have all the supercomputers around the world been hacked? If the Mersenne prime number found by the Chinese can pass the test of the supercomputer, then there is no problem."

The programmer paused and then continued: "No one can hack the supercomputers in the world. So I personally prefer that the Chinese have achieved breakthrough results in the scientific research on Mersenne prime numbers."

"Can the Chinese people lead the world in mathematical research? Haha..." President Barlow shook his head disdainfully.

At this time, the secretary knocked on the door again and came in.

"President, that Chinese Zhang Wei has sent another email!"

"I know, tell him and I will give him fifty thousand US dollars." President Barlow waved his hand impatiently.

"President, this time it is one hundred thousand US dollars. The 45th Mersenne prime number has exceeded ten million digits. According to our previous promise, we have to pay one hundred thousand US dollars." The secretary said.

"One hundred thousand, just one hundred thousand. Since it is a public promise, it must be fulfilled."

"But President, our funds may not be enough. We have paid 200,000 US dollars for the four Mersenne primes we found before, and now we have to pay another 300,000 US dollars. And our funds for the GIMPS project are not that much!"

"What? No money?" President Barlow was stunned.

According to past practice, it takes more than a year to find a Mersenne prime number, which means that only 50,000 US dollars a year are needed to keep the reward mechanism for finding Mersenne prime numbers in operation.

But Zhang Wei found five Mersenne primes in three weeks, and one was in the tens of millions. He made away with 300,000 US dollars in one fell swoop, clearing out the six-year prize pool.

The secretary continued: "In just one week, Zhang Wei has found three Mersenne primes. If he wants to find three more next week, we don't have 300,000 US dollars to pay him."

Dare you not give me money? Then the GIMPS project will be scrapped tomorrow!

Without the drive of economic interests, who would waste their computer resources to install burn-in software and calculate some bullshit Mersenne prime numbers, just because the computer won't crash?
But if you give money, the funds are tight. Lack of money is a very real problem.

"Our funds are actually insufficient, and they were all wiped out by one person!" President Barlow felt a sense of absurdity in his heart.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation was originally a hacker organization, and it was a hacker organization that dared to trouble Zuckerberg. Even the FBI had nothing to do with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Such a hacker organization was actually wiped out by a mathematician?

What a joke of the century!
"No, we can't let Zhang Wei continue to find new Mersenne primes!"

President Barlow thought for a while and said: "This time I will reply to Zhang Wei's email. I will reply to him personally and see if I can discuss with him and ask him not to release new Mersenne primes for the time being."

……

"I make money, I don't know how to spend it. I have a Nokia in my left hand and a Motorola in my right hand..."

Zhang Wei hummed this divine song in Jiaodong dialect, which gave him a sense of déjà vu.

Walking into the dormitory, the autistic person was not there, only Ye Haotian was dismantling the computer.

"Where is Chen Ming? I haven't seen him all day!" Zhang Wei asked.

"I was called over again by the Department of Materials! I heard that the Department of Physics also tore out graphene according to your method, and it was also torn out by Chen Ming. After hearing this, Professor Wu from the Department of Materials immediately ran to find Professor Fang to borrow someone. Now. Chen Ming should be wearing hand-tear tape on the material!"

"Professor Wu said he wanted to borrow someone, so Professor Fang just borrowed someone?"

"It's not like you don't know that Professor Fang and Professor Wu should wear the same pair of pants."

Zhang Wei looked at the chassis that had been dismantled by Ye Haotian, and then asked, "What are you doing? Is the computer broken?"

"It's all your fault! I also went to the GIMPS official website to download Prime95, but it blew up my computer and now I can't start it!"

"You broke the computer yourself, why do you blame me!" "If you hadn't found a few Mersenne primes, I might have downloaded this Prime95!" Concubine Ye's tone was a bit coquettish.

"Then you can use my computer first! Anyway, next month, I have to go back to my hometown, and the college entrance examination is coming soon. I have to review it! If the score is too high, it will be embarrassing!" Zhang Wei said.

Ye Guifei explained: "This year is to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the May 4th Movement. I will be a student representative and have to give a speech. The speech scripts are all in my computer. If I can't repair them well, I will have to re-write them." Write a speech.”

"Then you fix it slowly. If you can't fix it, just change the hard drive to my computer. You won't lose the speech."

Zhang Wei said, opened his computer and saw the email from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

"This year's funding quota is already insufficient, so you beg me not to release new Mersenne primes? What kind of trouble is this? There are only five Mersenne primes, and there is no money?
If you don’t have money, don’t brag so much! Blow out the cowhide, wait until you can't hold it anymore and then shout, Elder Sun, take away your magical powers! It's not embarrassing either.

Alas, the road to wealth that I finally found has been cut off again. It seems that the Americans are not able to help. Forget it, I will spare you this time. I will temporarily withdraw my magical power. When I am short of money, I will go to woolen wool! "

So Zhang Wei responded to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's email and agreed to the other party's request.

Now Zhang Wei has released the 45th Mersenne prime number. According to the speed of technological development, it is impossible for a new Mersenne prime number to appear before 2008.

The 45th Mersenne prime number has 2004 million digits. With the computing power of a home computer in , it would be difficult to calculate such a large number.

The 46th Mersenne prime was not discovered until 2008, because in November 2007, Intel released the Core 11 generation quad-core processor, which greatly improved the computer's computing power. Only then could the 2th Mersenne prime be found. Mersenne primes.

……

Zhang Wei came to the Mathematics Department carrying two bottles of Maotai and knocked on Professor Zhuge's office.

Seeing Zhang Wei, Professor Zhuge thought he was here to hand over public food, and subconsciously asked: "Did you discover a new Mersenne prime number again?"

"I just received an email from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the United States, saying that they have insufficient funds. Even if they find a new Mersenne prime number, they can't afford it!" Zhang Wei said.

"You should keep looking for it even if you don't give me money! Is it possible that you are looking for Mersenne prime numbers just for money?"

"Of course it's for money! If you don't give me money, how can I find Mersenne prime numbers?"

"Even if you don't give me money, you should continue searching for the sake of mathematics! Why are you young people so utilitarian!" Professor Zhuge said dissatisfied.

"Professor, I am different from you. You are a professor and have a salary. I am a poor student and I have no salary. I must not look at money!"

"You have the wrong idea. If you spend all your money, who will be able to engage in scientific research and become a scientist?"

"I don't want to be a scientist at all. I want to be a rich waste, eating, drinking and having fun every day!"

"That's not right. I heard Dean Shen mention that your ideal is to make chips!"

"Then make the chip first, and then treat it as waste!" Zhang Wei said, handing over two bottles of Moutai, and then said: "Professor, thanks to your care during this period, I bought you two bottles of Moutai."

"With a bonus of hundreds of thousands of dollars, you only gave me two bottles of Moutai? How stingy!"

Professor Zhuge said he was stingy, but he smiled and took Maotai over, and then said to Zhang Wei: "Xiao Zhang, go to the door and help me see if there is anyone waiting."

"Waiting around? This is the Department of Mathematics, and they are all your students. How can there be anyone waiting around?" Zhang Wei walked to the door in confusion. The corridor outside was very clean.

At this time, the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets came from Professor Zhuge's office.

When Zhang Wei turned around, he found that the two bottles of Maotai had disappeared.

"You dare to push me away and secretly hide two bottles of Maotai! You are guarding against me! What's the matter? I gave you the things, and you're afraid that I'll steal them back!"

Zhang Wei felt that Professor Zhuge's behavior was a bit funny, so he said, "Professor, this is your own office. Why do I feel like you are a thief?"

"You don't know, my daughter won't let me drink. Don't I have to be sneaky!"

Professor Zhuge changed his voice and continued: "How about you go to my house tonight and have a drink with me? If there are guests around, my daughter can at least let me have a few sips."

Zhang Wei thought for a while, the Maotai he bought was cheaper than Zhuge, at least he could get his money back by taking a few sips!
Moreover, Professor Zhuge’s daughter has 170cm long legs, fair skin, and has practiced aerobics!

This must not be known to anyone!
　Some book friends said that we should say "pulling out wool". I think it is more painful to pluck out, and it is more refreshing to lick out. "Plucking out bald skin" is definitely not as shocking as "pulling out bald skin". Tomorrow is Monday again, and the third round of recommendations is still the same. The first four days of reading are the most important. I hope you guys can help me and read more. Thank you for passing!
　　

(End of this chapter)