A follow-on to my previous message: I went through the Cleared Exponents report looking for other examples of factors found during double-checks that should have been found during the initial factorization. I found the following 7 examples, including the one I just reported:
5977297 53 DF 6726544627832489 26-Aug-01 12:03 TempleU-DI C031EBA9B 6019603 57 DF 137024179940485697 18-Aug-01 18:55 TempleU-DI C031EBA9B 7019297 57 DF 160100125459121849 27-Sep-01 22:52 TempleU-DI TD01489_Cub1 7020641 58 DF 226230108157229263 30-Sep-01 02:05 RayPelzer Homebase 7025987 56 DF 74052063365823791 30-Sep-01 01:12 shaneamy P600A 7027303 55 DF 31090234297428433 30-Sep-01 20:58 dswanson nosnawsd 10159613 56 DF 68279769831982367 19-May-01 10:13 hornup lbe_pc Seems to be a big clump in the 701xxxx - 702xxxx range. Given that this is at the leading edge of numbers currently being assigned for double-checks, I'd be willing to bet several more will turn up in the next few days. Were numbers in this range all originally factored by the same user or computer? Another interesting note: Given the number of different computers working double-checks, what are the odds that TempleU-DI/C031EBA9B would pick up TWO of these?!? Dan _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
