Hi,
At 09:56 PM 6/15/99 -0700, Rudy Ruiz wrote:
>however I must say that the speed at which the last dredges of exponents
>in a range (3310K-3960K) are reclaimed is as slow as it can be.
Most of these have been given to a reliable version 14 user who is
not operating under primenet control. So, you can expect little movement
for a while and then a big drops as he sends in his monthly batch of a
dozen results.
On a philosophical note, I am much less concerned than I used to be with
the milestone of completing first-time tests on all exponents below some
value. There are roughly 20,000 exponents below 3,960,000 that haven't been
double-checked yet. Given our present error rate, that means 200 of
these really haven't been tested yet. Thus completing these last 35
first-time tests does not imply there are no more Mersenne primes below
3,960,000. Don't get me wrong, methodical progress is important,
it's just that we can't really claim anything definitive until the
double-checks are done.
Best regards,
George
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