Primes.

So - when I thought about the idea of 'secondary primes'' and wondered if they really were real (yes, but not usually called that), and delved into about 46 pages of info on primes - including every link off of the Wikepedia primes page. And after touching on the Reimann Hypothesis again ... an old friend of mine, that I've worked off and on towards for the past 8 years, I found this:

http://www.mersenne.org/

you are looking at a program that searches for the next biggest prime number.

click on the 'download' link on the left navigation bar.

follow the step 1 instructions.

the program runs in the background, and only uses extra memory when you aren't running another program - in terms of the base priority, it runs at the lowest setting possible. Every other program that you could possibly run supersedes it. and it's only 1M ... smaller than one photo file.

and here's why to do it - you could win $50,000.00 !!!! ... for doing nothing. for letting the computer do it's own thing in the background. doesn't even open a window to bother you. but - DO turn on the optional SOUND option. it repeats a tone if you find the next 10 million + digit prime number (so that you can start looking forward to the check). that's right - someone out there (EFF) will actually pay you money for just finding this number, using a program that someone else made, without you doing anything but downloading it.

chances of finding one are about 1 in 250,000 on average. so ... don't expect to find one right away ... but it's still much better than the lottery, and you don't have to spend any money on it. anytime your computer is on anyway, it runs, without slowing you down. try it. it's kind of cool. I think. nerd much?

........okay.......... one new side note - if you set it to run with over 400 Megs of your free space, it will slow down the speed that photo files load at. .... but the recommended free space limit is 8 Megs .... maybe I got carried away.