Russel Brooks wrote:
> My pc just surprised me by deciding to do a self test after it finished
> its latest piece of work.
>
> > The program will now perform a self-tesst to make sure the
> > Lucas-Lehmer code is working properly on your computer.
>
> I thought the test was only performed when you first started doing GIMPS
> processing. Is this normal or has it detected an error in my results?
>
> (later...)
> I got "Self-test 256 passed!" so I guess I don't have any problems.
>
> cheers... Russ
This is normal, there are different self tests for different sizes of
numbers, you must have just gotten your first number in a higher range.
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