Re: Mersenne: numbering the messages

2001-03-10 Thread Robert van der Peijl
would give his opinion on this subject? Happy hunting, Robert van der Peijl -- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change

Mersenne: numbering the messages

2001-03-09 Thread Robert van der Peijl
To those of you who are afraid of missing some postings on this list. It's common knowledge that e-mail servers are down from time to time. That and other reasons could cause you to miss out on some of the postings from the list. The mersenne list digests are numbered sequentially. Suppose the m

Mersenne: expired exponents

2001-03-08 Thread Robert van der Peijl
We might not need a special version of prime95. How about if the _PrimeNet server_ itself only issue expired exponents to "power"-users? If that is a real possibility, perhaps Scott Kurowski could look into that? Robert. - Original Message - From: "Henk Stokhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Mersenne: prime95 - v21 progress

2001-03-08 Thread Robert van der Peijl
Joshua Zelinsky wrote on Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:38 AM > > > I'm betting this is a rather significant penalty! You have to use the > > > wall clock to time your iterations / minute. Prime95 will report the > > > same time, but it is only measuring the time to do an iteration, > > > not the a

Mersenne: prime95 - v21 progress

2001-03-06 Thread Robert van der Peijl
Joshua Zelinsky wrote on Tuesday, March 06, 2001 at 17:08:37 -0500 : > The list has been pretty quiet lately... Could it be that's because everyone is holding their breath for prime95 v21? But that might still take quite a while, since AFAIK no public announcement has been made about its schedul

Mersenne: Reliability of prime95 vs. PRP

2001-02-05 Thread Robert van der Peijl
the list have a view on this? Robert van der Peijl Eindhoven, The Netherlands _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Re: Mersenne: Lucas number

1999-10-24 Thread Robert van der Peijl
On 24 Oct 1999, at 23:03, Brian Beesley replied: > On 24 Oct 99, at 15:55, Robert van der Peijl wrote: > > > [ ... snip ... ] > > Show Number > > Show me the last few digits of the > > current Lucas number at each iteration. > > This is distinctly non-t

Re: Mersenne: difference between LL and double check

1999-10-24 Thread Robert van der Peijl
entage) does this make double checking compared to a first-time LL test? Robert van der Peijl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.ta

Mersenne: Lucas number

1999-10-24 Thread Robert van der Peijl
get to the last few iterations, you'll see that the residue is the same! During the LL test, you might even spot any periodicity occurring ;-) Any comments on this proposal? Robert van der Peijl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: Graphical visualisation of computations

1999-09-25 Thread Robert van der Peijl
of hours. Any comments on the issue of graphical visualisation? Cheers, Robert van der Peijl _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Mersenne: Front-end design

1999-09-22 Thread Robert van der Peijl
OT send all THAT to the mailing list! The list would get swamped in tons of traffic. So please, okay? Once the prime client has a nice-looking GUI, those millions running their fancy SETI@home screensavers looking for intelligence will all come rushing over to GIMPS! ;-) Robert van der Peijl m

Mersenne: GIMPS page in Dutch

1999-09-22 Thread Robert van der Peijl
To all Dutch-speaking subscribers to this mailing list: There is a GIMPS page in Dutch at: http://www.dse.nl/~m31/mersenne/prime.htm Just 'klik op de link', and let me know what you think. I would appreciate any comments you could give me. Please respond by private e-mail to: Robert van