--On Friday, November 22, 2002 12:31 AM +0100 "=?utf-8?Q?Torben_Schl=C3=BCntz?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That, and you get some rather ridiculous consequences if you do that.These days you get an assignment say 21.1xx.xxx and it will give you approximately 0.057 P90/y. Team_prime_rib has a calculator for the exact value you will get for any number you TrialFactor and what you get if you really find a factor. Visit www.teamprimerib.com to get the p90.exe program. Which remind me, to avoid the cheat possible, the award for finding a factor should be set somehow bigger than only the nearest 6x bits. Give a factor something like the full value of TFing it to 66 bit! IMHO the TF with a factor found should be equal to an LL; but I have already discussed this with George and he is afraid only factoring would be done if the award is that high.
When George originally created the list of candidate exponents, he eliminated tens of millions of composite exponents, and an infinite number of negative exponents, non-integer exponents, imaginary exponents, and prime exponents above the range of the program.
Should he get credit for all of these, especially given that it probably took him an afternoon of programming and computation combined, tops, to create the list?
By your reasoning he should, since he removed the need for LL testing all those exponents...
Nathan
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