Mersenne: RE: Mersenne Digest V1 #463 464

1998-11-13 Thread Scott Kurowski
A collective block of Q A: Is it possible for two GIMPS accounts to be merged into one new account, such that the work completed by the two accounts is credited to the new account ? Or is it possible to take the work done by one account and transfer it to another ? Yes. Change your

Re: Mersenne: Net abuse

1998-11-13 Thread John R Pierce
...as I was saying... they have been obnoxious net neighbors for years although this capricious and inconsistent blocking of arbitrary email addresses is a new one on me. I know numerous ISP and private email servers who automatically block any SMTP from a known 'open relay' server. There are

Re: Mersenne: Password safety

1998-11-13 Thread Sam Laur
you an email containing another url that you can click on from inside your e-mail system which will process the user's membership. Click? On e-mail? Note - not everybody is reading e-mail from their home PC using Netscrape or Internet Exploder. I use ELM - many others use PINE - neither of

Re: Mersenne: Net abuse

1998-11-13 Thread Paul Derbyshire
At 08:54 PM 11/12/98 -0800, you wrote: I know numerous ISP and private email servers who automatically block any SMTP from a known 'open relay' server. Usa.net and globalserve.net are not open relays. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()

Mersenne: interesting theorem

1998-11-13 Thread Aaron Cannon
I ran across an interesting statement on the top of a math paper that I was helping my sister with. It said that every even number greater than 4 is the sum of two primes. I am curious if this has been proven and if anyone knows where I could find more info about this. Thanks. -- Visit my new

Re: Mersenne: interesting theorem

1998-11-13 Thread Jon Edwards
Ok, let's see. 3x2=6 But what about 8? It's factors are 1 and 8 and 2 and 4. That doesn't work too well. Jon I ran across an interesting statement on the top of a math paper that I was helping my sister with. It said that every even number greater than 4 is the sum of two primes. I am

Re: Mersenne: interesting theorem

1998-11-13 Thread Aaron Cannon
I'm sure that it probably has been done, however, I am considering writing a program to see if I can disprove this theorem. It is my belief that it can be disproven because the higher you go, the less primes you have. Anyway, writing the program will be challenging and give me something to do.

Mersenne: Newbie Questions

1998-11-13 Thread Steve
If this is documented somewhere forgive me. I have looked. In the individual account status report, it is not obvious to me how the P90 CPU hrs/day is calculated. I have calculated that I should have about 400 but my report shows 111. All machines are running at full tilt with no screen

Re: Mersenne: interesting theorem

1998-11-13 Thread Steve
Try http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/notes/conjectures/ for a list of interesting conjectures including this one. Steve Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out 84000 computer products at www.pcavenue.com -Original Message- From: Aaron Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Mersenne: interesting theorem

1998-11-13 Thread mark snyder
At 8:51 PM -0500 11/13/98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, not factors. The different addends of the number. 4 = 2 + 2 (2 is prime) 6 = 3 + 3 (3 is prime) 8 = 3 + 5 (both prime) 10 = 5+5 12 = 5+7 14=7+7 16=5+11 18=7+11 Well, you get the idea. Another interesting thing to note which is part of the

Re: Mersenne: GIMPS Exposure

1998-11-13 Thread NieNen
In a message dated 11/13/98 9:55:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe there is a web service out there that does archive newspapers. Anyone know of one? Yes, www.elibrary.com archives certain papers accessible for a fee. -Joel