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        <title><![CDATA[The search up to 10^21 is finished]]></title>
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After more than 6 years, the BOINC project to find all amicable numbers up to 10<sup>21</sup> is finished!<br />
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There are 4,810,863 21-digit amicable numbers, and 4,661,814 (96.9%) of them were found by BOINC volunteers. More than 60 million WUs were created and crunched through over the years.<br />
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Congratulations everyone and thank you all for your participation!<br />
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There are no plans to run the search up to 10<sup>22</sup> at the moment - it will take more than 60 years, which is impractical. If, and that's a big IF, a new more efficient exhaustive search method is discovered in the future, then it will make sense to start the project again.
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