I've been in GIMPS since before the first one was discovered. Today I finished an exponent, and saw some stuff I haven't seen before.
After it completed, it said M14776187 stage 1 complete ---transformations --- time starting stage 1 GCD stage 1 GCD complete ERROR: factor doesn't divide N! contacting server etc. What went wrong? It looks like at the end of the L-L test, it did a GCD, thought it found a factor, but it wasn't a factor. For a while during this exponent, I had quick user switching on with WinXP. When I realized that prime95 was running twice as slow, I figured out that quick switching was causing two copies of primr95 to run. Could that cause a problem? +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Jud McCranie | | | | Programming Achieved with Structure, Clarity, And Logic | +---------------------------------------------------------+ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
