> Would a doublecheck with v17 on an exponent >4.2M result in the same (wrong)
> residue as the first (wrong) test?
Yes.
> Now, I when I check in the Internet PrimeNet Individual Account,
> it gives me no credit for that work. Where theses exponents given to
> someone else or is there another place to go to check?
[snip]
> I do not want to bother Georges with these small details (but
> important to me!) so I decide to send it to the list. But I sure
> want to know if my PC at home is computing for nothing.
You can bother us for answers. :-) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've forwarded your
message to our support guy, Brad, who will review your account history with you.
Off the top, please bear in mind PrimeNet does not credit work submitted on the
manual testing page. Even so, the test results are collected and tracked by
George and the work done is useful. In practically every case we can account
for apparent discrepancies, and easily correct the very few that are real.
> So long as double-checking assignments have exponents less than 2^22,
> the server-imposed rule is OK. But we're starting to close in on 2^22
> - - Scott, this rule may need to be looked at in a month or two!
Yup. They will probably be put to factoring.
> SETI@Home brought positive effects to GIMPS? Wow, this thing must be bigger
> than we thought, considering the people who left us.
Many that registered for newsletters said they went to the seti@home web site,
saw the GIMPS link and joined GIMPS instead.
> Radio ads? Is somebody paying to get out `join GIMPS' on everybody's radio?
Entropia.com, Inc. paid for a few spots on a local S.F. Bay Area PBS station in
mid May. Seemed to have brought around 1600 new GIMPS folks in about a week,
but that's only a *very* rough figure. We can't correct for unknown events, but
if we (liberally) assume airtime was the only significant attention-getting
event during that period, the correlation is reasonably strong. It was a fun
experiment.
> Do you mean the `v17 bug' newsletter, or has there been one (with M?38) that
> I didn't get? I _have_ signed up for the newsletter on the web page.
Yes - the v17 bug and $50k prize newsletter. Roughly 1100 new accounts joined
within a few days of that. Some of that was undoubtedly due to the EFF's own
press releases, but either way, it smacked of prize motivation.
> [...] (What FBI quote, BTW?)
Aaron's unfortunate search warrant quotes an Arthur Anderson estimate for the
cost of 8 P90 CPU years.
> "Within 18 months, you may be able to put the equivalent of today's
> supercomputer on your desktop--for about $1000"
Keep your Internet services... :-)
Regards,
scott
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