I am using mprime 22.12 on a pentium 166 MMX to do trial factoring. For the exponents currently being assigned from primenet it takes this machine about 12 minutes to factor from 2^57 to 2^58.
I thought I would try factoring some small exponents (under 1,000,000) from the nofactors.zip file. I put FactorOverride=64 into prime.ini and started mprime as usual but progress is _much_ slower, it will take about 8 hours to factor from 2^57 to 2^58. Can someone tell me why the time difference is so great? Geoff. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers