If your overclocked machine miscalculates a number that is really prime we wont know about it for a couple of years until the double-checking reaches the number. That would be sad both for you and for the project. For you since you missed the prime and for the project since quite a few people would get bored and leave the project because we "never find any primes so I'll go hunt some aliens instead. At least that looks cool..".
Every number is doublechecked. Some are triple checked. We will find the prime eventually but it would be much nicer to find it right away. /Lars On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, George Pantazopoulos wrote: > Hey all, > If an overclocked machine is producing erroneous results, how much harm > does it to the project as a whole? Can it miss the next Mersenne prime? > Will the rest of the group assume that there is officially no Mersenne > prime at the missed location and not double-check? > > Thanks for the insight, > George Pantazopoulos > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm > Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers > _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
