EFF Cooperative Computing Awards

The EFF Cooperative Computing Awards are a series of prizes offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation "to encourage ordinary Internet users to contribute to solving huge scientific problems." It consists of the following awards:
* $50,000 to the first person or group to discover a prime number with at least one million digits
* $100,000 to the first person or group to discover a prime number with at least 10 million digits
* $150,000 to the first person or group to discover a prime number with at least 100 million digits
* $250,000 to the first person or group to discover a prime number with at least one billion digits
The prize rules require claimants to fully disclose the method used to find the prime, and the proof must be deterministic. Any discovery can only qualify for one prize, and would be given the largest award available at the time. For example, if a billion-digit prime is discovered before one with 100 million digits, then it would qualify for the $250,000 prize but not the $150,000 one.https://eff.org/awards/coop/rules
As of November 2022, the $50,000 and $100,000 prizes have been claimed, both times by GIMPS.https://eff.org/press/releases/big-prime-nets-big-prizehttps://eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/14-0
== References ==
== External links ==
* EFF Cooperative Computing Awards
Category:Contests