At 09:59 PM 6/28/99 +0100, Gordon Spence wrote:
>The GIMPS home page explains the following
>
>"Finally, if a factor is later found for a Mersenne number or the
>Lucas-Lehmer result is found to be incorrect, then you will "lose credit"
>for the time spent running the test."
>
>It is on <www.mersenne.org/top.htm> always struck me as odd I must admit.
It isn't very clear, but the purpose may have been to discourage bogus positive
results, because they will eventually be double-checked.
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