----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robin Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Mersenne: Work being wasted
> Nah, the candle is being burned from both ends. The point is that > the small ones _are_ being poached. If you work in the same order > as the poacher, work on lots of exponents will be replicated. If you > work in the opposite order, only one exponent will be accidentally > triple-checked. A solution, then, is not to do small exponants at all. > Regards > Brian Beesley Daran G. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
