Mersenne: Re: Different results

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:47:10AM -0700, Aaron Blosser wrote:
The WW1 is part of Scott's security check, just to make sure it's not been
falsely generated or some such.  I assume part of it is related to the date,
time, or some other such thing which is why there's one part that's
different?

Wouldn't the last part be the shift count?

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Re: Mersenne: Re: Different results

[Aaron Blosser]

 On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:47:10AM -0700, Aaron Blosser wrote:
 The WW1 is part of Scott's security check, just to make sure it's not
been
 falsely generated or some such.  I assume part of it is related to the
date,
 time, or some other such thing which is why there's one part that's
 different?

 Wouldn't the last part be the shift count?

Um, could be. :)  Let's face it, I'm not 100% sure what the last part is
there.  I know there's the security check, but I dunno what the other stuff
is.  You're probably right. :)


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