It is relevant here, and you need not worry about repeating other work.
The ECM implementation chooses an elliptic curve randomly each time it
is run --- at least, that's what it's supposed to do. If the random
number generator is any good at all, you have an entirely negligible
chance of choosing a curve that has already been used.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 10 April 2001 17:54
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mersenne: A question about ECM
Hello everybody,
I am interested in factoring Fermat numbers and I checked on the
page: http://www.mersenne.org/ecmf.htm
<http://www.mersenne.org/ecmf.htm> . Can I help ECM factoring the number
F(14) for like bound #1 44,000,000? Or is that bound already taken by
someone. In other word if I use prime95 and do ECM factoring of F(14) on
bound 44,000,000 will I test the same curves as somebody else who
already is testing that. Sorry if this is a not relevant question for
this group but I could not find any relevant information anywhere.
Best Regards,
Tobias
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