Oleg Zhirnov wrote:
> Hello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>!
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> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> on 06/22/08
> at 04:21 PM,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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>> The error rate is around 3,2 % (From the last statistic files : 32404 bad
>> results and 1001016 verified results.)
>
> Which mean, that in this 32404 we have approx. 1000 still unchecked
> results... Sad news. And more bad news, that we need ~5 checks, to be
> sure, that we do not "lost" any Mersenne Prime...
If the false negative rate is greater than zero, then there is
no way to be absolutely sure we don't misss one.
OTOH, checking should have a much lower Type II error rate.
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