RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

[Willmore, David]

> > From: Willmore, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > value of 90 days.  For some reason, I'm not allowed to get more than
> about
> a
> > month of factoring work.  It's starting to cut into my efficiency.  Is
> there
> > a way around this?
> 
        Paul Leyland wrote:
> Try joining the people at the bleeding edge.  I've been factoring an
> exponent just below 60M.  It's taking several weeks on a PII-366.  Ken
> Kriesel is co-ordinating these folk.
> 
Wonderful Idea(tm)!  I hadn't thought of that.  Funny, considering I did
some factoring as part of the v19 QA effort.  Should have though of it....

Ken!  Sign me up! :)  I'd be glad to leave these smaller numbers to the
486s.

Cheers,
David
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