Tom Duda skrev: > Hi > > .... I'll ask anyhow. :-) > > This is my first time with GIMPS. So far, I've gone past the P1 phase and it > is now doing primality testing. Are there other phases beyond this one? If > so, what others are there, please? > > Tom Duda > > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
After P-1 (stage 1 and stage 2) there is only the primality test (Lucas-Lehmer test) left for you. Sometimes there is a trial factoring step before the P-1 factoring. And after your primality test (usually years after) someone else will double-check your result. Patrik -- Patrik Johansson http://www.bahnhof.se/~pjoh/index.html _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
