i was just wondering ive been running primegrid for a year now , around 6 months with my new tower and laptop together and have still never found a prime in any of my searches and run the program whenever im not actively on the computer, i was just wondering if was normal at all and how long does it take to start finding some primes?!

First off: There is no set amount of time within which anyone will find a prime, you unfortunately just need to be lucky enough to get the right workunit.

Then again, you can help luck a bit by choosing certain subprojects in your preferences. The projects most likely to give you a prime are Proth Prime Search (PPS LLR) and Sophie-Germain Prime Search (SGS LLR). They are more likely to give you a prime because they are testing relatively small numbers, which means the chances of a number being prime are higher as well as you being able to test more numbers per hour.

All projects you currently have badges for are about large to gigantic prime numbers. This means that not only are the chances smaller of a number you test being prime, you also can only do a lot fewer test in the same time as you could with the smaller numbers.

So why would anyone want to test those large numbers you ask? Because if you find one of those big ones you will end up high in the top 5000 prime numbers of the world and will most likely stay there for quite a while. :) (Or because you want the badges for the related subprojects available here ;))
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