Rick,
Glad to see *somebody's* awake!! <grin>
>From: Eric Hahn
>
>> P.S. At the 79.3M range, you'll probably not want to set it
>> at 100 iterations... Per iteration time on 266MHz PII with
>> 64MB RAM is 58.781 seconds!!!
>
>The only question that comes to mind is if you had to plough
>through factoring before you got to the LL test...but then I
>realise that you still wouldn't be done if that were true.
You're right! Even on a P3-500, it'd take 7-8 months to plough
through all the factors to 2^72. I intentionally told it that
it had been factored thru 2^73 to prevent it from doing such.
This was for a test I was running...
>I signed up for an exponent in the 33mil range and the factoring >alone
took 13 days on a P3-500. I'd originally does it for testing >purposes, but
after that I've just got to let it continue. :-)
I've got 2 machines working on 10M digit exponents. One will
work until completion, while the other will be forced to
trial-factor only (a feature not offered in v19 which I've
mentioned to George).
>In a year's time, I'd love to see some numbers on how many signed
>up for tem million digit numbers and later quit for smaller
>exponents...
Well, let's see... You got yours assigned Sept. 5 at 3:38 UTC.
14 exponents assigned, 3 factored, 11 still in progress...
and counting...
Interesting to note, however, that 2 of the exponents factored
and 1 still in progess had factors listed on Alex Kruppa's
site: http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~kruppa/M33M/index.html
before 10M digit exponents were assigned by IPS.
Which ones?? 33,219,341 and 33,219,469 and 33,219,707
(33,219,341 was assigned by IPS to Alex, BTW <g>)
Eric Hahn
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