On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 07:22:34AM +0000, Brian Beesley wrote:

> Lots of them. Consumer hardware is not very reliable at all, and it
> only takes one bit flip during the execution of the test to ruin the
> result. The miracle is that the failure rate is so small.

Suppose there is a double-check on an exponent yielding a difference
w.r.t. the "original" result - is there a feature that notifies one
(in case the account is still valid)? I'd be interesting in getting to
know wether "my" results prove reliable, but cross-checking by hand
seems annoying...

Christian
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