Hi,
At 04:37 PM 8/16/2001 -0400, CARLETON GARRISON wrote:
>I had the recent occassion to see a Double Check LL test - find a
>factor. On George's top producer page (the one that gets updated less
>than daily or even possibly weekly - how often does it get updated?),
Roughly weekly.
>it says that finding a later factor or an incorrect LL result will cause
>loss of credit. Is this up-to-date stat policy?
Yes. The top producers page is basically a tabulation of all the LL tests
in my double-checked and single-checked databases. These databases
do not track proven bad results and factored exponents. Also, it does not
track which program created the LL result. Thus, users that use the newer
faster programs are given the same credit as GIMPS veterans that used
slower versions.
Thus, look at the list as a close approximation to your work contributed
relative to other member's work contributed.
> Does this apply only to LL stats or is it possible to lose credit for
> factoring if later factoring proves more successful? How many such
> scenarios are there?
That table gives no credit for trial factoring or P-1 factoring.
Hope that helps,
George
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