I've been slowly building an index to a few topics discussed on this
mailing list. Some of you may find it useful, so here is my current
version:
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Selected topics discussed on the Mersenne mailing list, indexed by
date stated in the message header
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Notes for users:
1) The topics indexed here are only those I selected because of my
personal interest. Many significant topics do not appear in this
index because of either my lack of interest or my simply not having
gotten to them yet. In the latter category are:
Distribution of Mersenne primes
Elliptic Curve Method (ECM)
Firewalls
Overclocking
Pollard rho factoring method
Trial factoring
Utility software
2) I usually didn't index keyword occurrences that seemed to me not
to say anything significant about the topic. Your judgment of
significance versus triviality may vary from mine.
3) Many topics were discussed in more than one posting on a given
date. So, remember to scan all the postings on each indexed date if
you don't want to miss any indexed references.
Note that some messages were not posted to the list in strictly
increasing order of message date -- there may be "02 Dec" messages
posted *after* "03 Dec" messages as well as before them, not only
because of time zones.
4) Some related terms are grouped under only one of the terms for
indexing (e.g. "Benford's Law", "MASM"). But there may be separate
exceptions (e.g. "Number Theoretic Transform (NTT}").
5) Yes, I realize it would be of value to have either indexing by
Mersenne Digest number or a date-to-Mersenne-Digest-number conversion
table. :-)
Richard B. Woods
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Range examined for this version of the index:
1996 April 21 (first archived Mersenne Prime list posting)
through 2002 Jan 14 (Digest Vol. 1 #929)
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Benford's Law
also First Digit Law,
law of leading digits,
leading-digit distribution:
1996 Sep 4-5;
1999 Mar 17-19, July 12-14;
Credit for future discoveries of Mersenne primes:
1996 June 27, July 8-9;
1997 June 22-23;
1998 Feb 2,7,9, June 22-23;
1999 June 13-14, Aug 5-6, Oct 15-16;
2001 Feb 3-4, Mar 10, Dec 4-5
Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT): see "Fourier transform"
Discrete Weighted Transform (DWT): see "Fourier transform"
Execution priority of GIMPS software (Prime95, mprime, et al.):
1996 Aug 15-16, Sep 28-29, Nov 26, Dec 2,6,10,18;
1997 Jan 20,23-24, Feb 18, Aug 26, Sep 3, Oct 25, Nov 1,27-28;
1998 Mar 2, June 3,12, Aug 19, Sep 16-17, Oct 29, Nov 16,27-28, Dec
11;
1999 Feb 18,21, May 15-16, Oct 15, Nov 2, Dec 17-19;
2000 Jan 3,10,12,25, Mar 2,13-14, Apr 13-14,17-19,26, May 11,15-16,
Aug 17, Nov 12;
2001 Feb 4, Mar 25,30-31, Apr 1,17-18, June 22-23, Sep 4, Oct 29-31,
Nov 7;
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT): see "Fourier transform"
Fast Galois Transform (FGT): see "Fourier transform"
First Digit Law: see "Benford's Law"
Fourier transform
also Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT),
Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT),
Discrete Weighted Transform (DWT),
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT),
Fast Galois Transform (FGT)
[Note: this entry omits indexing simple numerical tables of FFT
lengths used for different exponent ranges and similarly trivial
references.]
(see also "Number Theoretic Transform (NTT}"):
1996 May 7,15-17,21,24, June 3-6,11, July 1,8-12, Sep 5, Oct 4,
Dec 10,19-20;
1997 Jan 6,16,30, Feb 12-13,23,26, Mar 4-5, Apr 24-25, May 7-9,29-30,
June 8-10,16,24-26, July 9,1 [A posting dated 1 July appeared later
than a posting dated 9 July], Sep 11,15-16,20,24-26,29, Oct 1,8,12,
Nov 4-5,8, Dec 4,6,8-9,15;
1998 Jan 1-2,6,19,29, Feb 2,8-9,11, Mar 13-14,27,30,
Apr 6-7,9,23,25,29, May 10-11,14-16,18-21, June 8, July 3,5,7,27,31,
Sep 3-4,8,26,30, Oct 1-2,22,24,26-27, Nov 5-6,28, Dec 4,16,21,27;
1999 Jan 6-8, Feb 10,26, Mar 3,7-8,18,22, Apr 1,7,12,18,21,23,30,
May 3-7,9-11,15,18, June 5,8,15,17,
July 1,8,10,14-16,18,20-23,25,29-31, Aug 5-6,13,16,20-23,25,
Sep 9,22-26,29-30, Oct 1,4,6,8,11,19,28, Nov 3,6,9, Dec 9;
2000 Jan 6, Feb 6-7,10-11,13,17, Mar 18, Apr 13, May 4-5,7,9-10,22,
June 18-20, July 6,16-17,25,31, Sep 19,30, Nov 26-27, Dec 1,16-17;
2001 Jan 1, Feb 7,21, Mar 11-13, Apr 26, May 14-16, June 17,
July 21,24,30, Sep 9, Oct 10,20-23, Nov 2-5,20, Dec 7;
FFTW ("Fastest Fourier Transform in the West"):
1997 May 7, Sep 20,24,26, Oct 12;
1998 Apr 9;
1999 May 3, July 16, Aug 13, Sep 23,25-28, Oct 4-5,8;
2000 June 24;
Gage, Paul:
1996 Aug 26, Sep 3;
1997 June 29;
1999 June 3,30;
gas (gcc assembler):
1997 Apr 11;
1999 Sep 18-19;
2000 Aug 31, Dec 1;
2001 Nov 3;
Law of leading digits: see "Benford's Law"
Leading-digit distribution: see "Benford's Law"
Lehmer, Dr. Emma:
1996 June 13-14, Sep 8;
2000 Feb 14, Apr 10;
MASM (Microsoft Macro Assembler)
also NASM,
TASM:
1996 Nov 27,30, Dec 2-3, 18;
1997 Apr 11, Nov 9;
1998 May 12;
1999 Jan 6, Sep 18-19;
2000 Aug 31;
NASM: see "MASM"
Number Theoretic Transform (NTT}
(see also "Fourier transform"):
1996 July 27, Aug 15, Nov 26;
1997 Sep 29;
1998 Jan 4;
1999 Feb 26, Mar 3,22, Apr 30, May 3-5, June 16-17;
2000 Dec 24;
Pollard P-1 factoring method:
1996 May 5, July 9-10,25-27, Aug 1;
1997 July 22-24,28-31, Aug 5,12,26, Oct 4-5;
1998 Feb 20,23-24, Aug 24, Sep 4-5, Oct 7, Nov 9,16,18,22,24,
Dec 1,3,9;
1999 Apr 9, May 12, June 18-19, July 19,21-23, Aug 5,12,15-17,
Sep 9,17-18,20,24, Oct 3,21,28, Nov 9;
2000 Jan 31, Feb 1-3,6,11,25,27, Mar 12,16,20,24-25,29,
Apr 7,11,13,20-21,24,26, May 3,12,25-26,28, June 2,6,12-15,23,27-28,
July 21-22,30, Aug 14, Nov 28, Dec 23;
2001 Feb 25, Mar 7, May 22, June 8-9, July 22-25, Dec 3-5,9-13,15,24;
2002 Jan 13-14;
Priority: see "Execution priority of GIMPS software"
Signs (+-) of congruence of the penultimate term of the Lucas-Lehmer
series:
1996 May 2,4,6-8,26-27;
1997 June 30;
Slowinski, David (L-L tests, nonpublication of search ranges and
residues, relationship to GIMPS, matching residues of GIMPS results):
1996 May 7, July 1,8-9,11,26, Sep 3, Oct 2,5;
1997 Jan 18, June 29;
1999 June 3,16,27,30;
2001 Feb 3, Dec 4-5;
Suyama's improvement in P-1 stage 2:
2000 July 22;
TASM: see "MASM"
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