Exponents are only re-assigned if the machine they are assigned to has not
been heard from AT ALL over the past 60 days. So long as the machine
checks in and tells PrimeNet that it is still working, it will let them
take as long as they want to check the exponent.
This was my complaint from a couple days ago -- one client in particular
has four exponents checked out for double-checking, and is regularly
checking in -- taking 11 months to check a single exponent. Even though
those three "untouched" exponents won't even be LOOKED AT by the machine
for up to three years, the will never expire because the machine checks in
regularly (at least every 60 days) and reports that it did a few iterations.
As I said, unless there is an intervention or someone just takes it upon
themselves to double-check those exponents with software other than
George's (the very basis of doublechecking), we won't get confirmation of
M37 until 2003.... <sigh>
At 09:16 AM 6/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:22 PM 6/10/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >I would venture to say that those 40 exponents are "out" at the moment,
> >assigned to machines which have not yet turned in a result.
>
>But I thought that the exponents were reassigned if no result was reported
>in 2
>months. These were assigned much more than 2 months ago.
>
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