On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:16:42PM -0500, George Woltman wrote: > I'll post the press release in the next few hours. The confusion is my > fault. I did not tell Tony to keep the exponent secret until I had the > press release and web site changes ready. Since the mersenne forum had > already guessed the exponent from the dummy residue generated by the > Primenet server, he was just confirming what was already "known". Once > that happened word was bound to spread!
This is becoming an interesting tradition -- I can only remember once or twice where the exponent wasn't guessed or leaked before the official release. Seems like the GIMPSers are curious people :-) Of course, congratulations to everybody, once again. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
