I'm pretty sure 'twas always thus. I mean, even if you don't find a factor, you're still doing work and contributing to the cause.
When I had my little "incident" a few years back (4 and a half years ago, can you believe it?), the prime service was stopped before a single one had finished it's LL test, but, it did get quite a bit of factoring done, and even though it didn't find a big bunch of factors, my factoring credit did go up a wee bit. Not much... Most of the #'s had already been factored at that time, and this was well before the days of P-1 (I think we were still doing first time tests in the 4M exponent range). > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Russel Brooks > > You get credit for your work doing factoring even if you're not > > finding factors. > > Has this changed? When I joined GIMPS a couple of years ago > I though Factoring only counted when a factor was found. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
