On Sat, 12 May 2001 14:20:36 -0400, Jud McCranie wrote:
>At 01:49 PM 5/12/2001 -0400, George Woltman wrote:
>
>In my last email, I alluded to how the server has some strange behavior when
>>the double-checking and first-time testing ranges overlap. One such glitch is
>>that if one of these 26 exponents expires, it is reassigned as a double-check
>>(and will have to wait until all lower exponents are assigned).
>
>
>A thought (but it would mean more work) is that if an exponent expires, it
>gets reassigned to someone who has completed at least one exponent, to keep
>the progress going. These unfinished exponents in the 6,000,000 range were
>originally assigned so long ago that they must have been dropped several times.
I think that's more of a 'quick fix', and might make new participants
feel that GIMPS doesn't trust them.
It's certainly an interesting topic for discussion, though.
Nathan
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