SRPA Research Journal 8


 * Property of Dr. Richard P. Feynman


 * ''Station: SRPA 11


 * Date: June 19, 1953


 * Our research into the recovered gray tech components is yielding advances at an
 * accelerating rate. Three days ago, our team successfully recombined nine components
 * to create a form of super-computing machine. By ripping a mechanical input apparatus
 * to the machine, we were able to effectively "program" it to perform a series of complex
 * mathematical operations. Yesterday we programmed the machine to compute
 * Mersenne Prime numbers. In a matter of several minutes the machine had calculated
 * thirty-nine of these primes. The highest being two to the power of 13,446,917, minus
 * one. That is 4,053,946 digits long! The largest Mersenne Prime discovered prior to this
 * day was 687 digits.


 * Even at this very early stage of understanding the mechanics of the device, we
 * estimate that the computing power of this machine may exceed that of the ENIAC II by
 * a factor of more than ten to the eighteenth. Our challenge now lies in understanding
 * how to use machines such as this to aid the human cause.