On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Robin Stevens wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:06:27PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As for Mary's current predicament, with that block of small > > exponents you have, my best suggestion is to reverse the order of > > the lines in worktodo.ini so that the _largest_ ones are done first. > > Intermediate checkins to PrimeNet will then cause unstarted > > assignments which are no longer neccessary to be automatically > > removed. > > Of course if one _keeps_ doing this, then the smallest exponents never get > processed (and perhaps they become more likely to be poached) :-)
The idea here wasn't that you'd never get the small ones done, but that if someone else finished one of them out of order, it would be removed from your reserved numbers without you wasting any work on it. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?" Terry Pratchett on alt.fan.pratchett _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
