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The ABC Conjecture was first conjured in 1985 and its subject matter is connected to many other problems in number theory. ABC@home is an attempt to solve the ABC conjecture.

From the ABC@home website: "The ABC conjecture involves abc-triples: positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), the so-called radical of abc. The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c)/log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1. The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics."
 

ABC@Home's Feed

  • Project News 25 March 2012
    We've encountered a problem with our feed of new work units, so there's no new work available right now. Sorry! We're working on fixing it.
  • Project News 10 September 2011
    Due to a flood of spam, we've temporarily restricted who can post to the project forums.
  • Project News 9 April 2011
    A quick update: A lot of spam profiles were removed in the last few days, do complain if we removed any legitimate ones by mistake! Also, preliminary data for all triples with c no more than 10^18 has been available from our data page for a while now, although it is (of course) still preliminary at this point. Many thanks to our dedicated users, and we've now moved onward to further reaches of the search space!
  • Project News 3 October 2010
    ABC@home will be unavailable for some periods over the next few days.
  • Project News 24 August 2010
    Binaries for all platforms have now been updated. There seem to be some issues with Windows 2000 hosts, which we'll try and fix in the next few days. Please report any other problems!
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