Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

[George Woltman]

Hi,

At 05:33 PM 3/25/00 -0500, Nathan Russell wrote:
>After this is resolved, should all of us use the manual pages to get rid 
>of our factoring assignments and get new, lower ones?

There is no need for that.  Factoring is far enough ahead of the
first-time Lucas-Lehmer testers that nearly all these exponents will
be trial factored well before the testers start reserving them.

Regards,
George

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