While updating my web pages the other day, I noticed a bug in the contents of the DATABASE file; it turned out to be a sign extension bug in extract's handling of exponents above 2^31 (~2 billion). I've made a fix and built a new: http://www.garlic.com/~wedgingt/beta.tgz beta.tar.gz ... several days ago. These might be some other, very small, improvements over the "regular" release, but nothing else that really qualifies as a bug fix or speed up. I also updated my web pages that day to fix the DATABASE file itself, which should have included a minor milestone: all Mersenne numbers with exponents less than 20,000 have now had pseudo-prime tests of their remaining cofactors. http://www.garlic.com/~wedgingt/mersdata.tgz mersdata.zip See mersenne.html and mersfmt.txt there for more info. I now automatically get data from Dr. Wagstaff's web site at Purdue as well as from George Woltman's and Paul Leyland's sites. The local disk space I can use for Mersenne stuffs has nearly doubled, to about 3 GB, so feel free to send me new factoring data, Factor98 and Factor95 save files, etc., even more than before. I already update automatically from a few personal web pages with factoring data, beyond those mentioned above, as well. Will ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
