NFSNet
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- For the National Science Foundation network, see NSFNet.
NFSNet is a distributed computing project that factors very, very large numbers that have hundreds of digits. As of mid-2005, it was facoring one number approximately every month.
The name comes from the number field sieve, a relatively fast algorithm used to determine possible combinations of integers that can be multiplied together to make the number in question.
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External links
- [NFSnet Web site: http://www.nfsnet.org]