At 09:59 PM 12/4/2001 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This would be an interesting situation: > >(a) I acquire an assignment, let it expire but carry on working on it > >(b) You grab the assignment when it's recycled > >Case 1: I finish first, find a prime and announce my discovery. I did >the work but the exponent is assigned to you! Who gets the >credit???
You, get the credit. User b will be mighty disheartened. I know first hand. Slowinski's Cray beat my own Pentium-90 by just a few days in the discovery of M#34. As to legal issues, the disclaimer section of the download page states: We are not responsible for lost prize money, fame, credit, etc. should someone accidentally or maliciously test the number you are working on and find it to be prime. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
