On Saturday 01 February 2003 07:53, Eric Hahn wrote: > > Let's say you've done 700 curves with B1=25,000 to > find a factor up to 30-digits... and you've been > unsuccessful... :-( > > Now you've decided to try 1800 curves with > B1=1,000,000 to try and find a factor up to > 35-digits. > > Do you have to start from scratch... or can you > somehow use the information from attempting to > find a factor up to 30-digits... to save some > time and energy... and speed up the search > process at the same time???
Effectively every curve is "starting from scratch". The only way I can think of using information from previous unsuccessful curves is that it's probably a Bad Idea to use the same s-value (well, it's a complete waste of time if the limits are not increased). The point here is that the chance of picking a previously-used s-value is infinitesimal, providing the "random" number generator on the system is reasonably behaved. Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
