At 10:19 AM 12/4/2001 -0500, George Woltman wrote: >If you find a new prime smaller than M39, you have found something *really* >rare - an out-of-order Mersenne prime. Only one of those as ever been found >when Welsh and Colquitt found M110503. Some argue that M4253 was >found out-of-order, but the computer discovered it in-order....
For the information of the list, the folks who *want* to try to get exponents below (the presumed) M#39 might want to look into manually fetching work at 2:00 (IIRC) in the morning Eastern standard (7 or 8 GMT), when the server releases exponents of folks who have stopped participating without properly quitting. You face a small risk that the original tester will submit a result, but even in that case you'll get credit for the double-check (though that would be a small consolation if a prime were found). Nathan _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
