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Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler 265

kpearson writes "Distributed.net's 8-year-old OGR-25 distributed computing project has just proven conclusively that the predicted shortest 25-mark Golomb ruler is optimal. 'The total length of the ruler is 480, with marks at positions: 0 12 29 39 72 91 146 157 160 161 166 191 207 214 258 290 316 354 372 394 396 431 459 467 480. (This ruler may alternatively be expressed in terms of the distance between those positions, which is how dnetc displays them: 12-17-10-33-19-...).' 124,387 people participated in the project and two people found the shortest ruler, one on October 10, 2007 and the other on March 24, 2008."

Comment Re:Until puberty (Score 1) 701

They're housewives...

Good grief! They're probably doing that "menial" job better than you possibly could. Where do you get the self-righteous pretension to talk down to housewives? Maybe it's puberty that fried *your* brain. Do you honestly think software engineering is more important than homemaking?

Well, it's obvious that you do, and you're what's wrong with the educational system.

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