At 09:47 AM 9/21/1999 -0700, James Escamilla wrote:
>Wouldn't the run time at 4.231 be about 10 years?
Yes, for that particular exponent (79,299,959), it would
take approx. 10 yrs. and 231 days to test.
That's assuming 4 items:
1) A P2 266MHz PC was being used the entire time.
2) The PC was being used exclusively to test the exponent 24/7.
3) The 4.231 sec/iter is constant (which it isn't!)
4) A factor isn't found (below 2^62 is unsuccessful at least!)
Eric Hahn
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