>NOW it does, after the official announcement.... Remember
>when Roland found M37? Someone found a 0x000000000000000
>residue in the report and beat George to the punch, so Scott
>modified the reports so that they would NOT post a zero
>residue automatically. So THIS time, when word came that
>we'd found a potential prime, some enterprising person
>immediately grabbed the "assigned exponents" file, and the
>"cleared exponents" file, and by the process of elimination,
>deduced the prime number because it was the ONLY candidate
>listed as "assigned" but was not EITHER cleared as non-prime
>or still in progress.
Actually, it was updated and added on July 5. Previously,
the cleared exponent list looked like the following
(accounts removed for space):
6972451 62 0x1921D245846367__ 25-Jun-99 15:07
6972467 62 0x01123F0756E444__ 03-Jul-99 11:27
6972509 62 0x681B51793464A4__ 17-May-99 06:07
6972617 62 0xC377193C8903C1__ 05-Apr-99 05:25
6972649 62 0x30982ED7214ACA__ 09-May-99 12:49
6972709 62 0xEADF232189A0F0__ 21-Jun-99 08:30
>George was telling Scott to correct for this 'leak' so that
>a really determined person could not do a comparison-elimination
>to deduce a prime number find before George announces it.
Fixing this one 'leak' won't do the job, if you know how
and where to look...
Besides, *some people* know how to keep quiet about certain
things. You didn't see this person going around announcing
it to the world immediately after it was found, did you???
In fact, their website didn't post it being found until after
it was verified, and even then, didn't disclose the number!!
On the other hand, they could've noticed a discrepany and
shrugged it off as meaningless until after word got out a
new prime was found. At that point, they could've gone
back and said to themselves '*that explains the discrepany!*'.
Just a couple of possibilities....
>Of course, Curt Noll's web page made that a pointless exercise... ;-)
>> >(Note to Scott - create a dummy non-zero residue a stick it
>> >in the cleared exponents report).
>>
>>Too late!! The Cleared Exponents Report reads:
>>
>>6972593 62 P 0x0000000000000000 01-Jun-99 13:57 nayan precision-mm
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