Poke's post sounds like a troll, but what the heck, I'll respond.
At 08:43 PM 1999/09/21 -0700, poke wrote:
All programs are affected by the FDIV bug.
No. Not all programs use the FPU. Some that do, do not use instructions
affected by the bug.
It is a bug in the design of
the
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone for the thorough testing of v19. I've fixed several bugs
mainly dealing with worktodo.ini and expected completions dates.
Only one "serious" bug was found - creating the half-hourly P-1 save
files would sometimes lead to ILLEGAL SUMOUT errors.
The new prime95 beta
From: Aaron Blosser
I noticed that prime.spl was in the directory
but that it wasn't being deleted after actually
sending the completion dates.
The same thing happened to me. I deleted the file and all is working fine
now. The only thing I'm concerned about is that the spl may not be deleted
Hi all,
If you downloaded beta #3 this morning please download beta #4.
Beta #3 likes to repeatedly send expected completion dates.
The prime95 beta can be downloaded at:
ftp://entropia.com/gimps/p95b.zip
The linux beta dynamicly linked with glibc 2.1 is at:
On 20 Sep 99, at 1:06, Rick Pali wrote:
The only question that comes to mind is if you had to plough through
factoring before you got to the LL test...but then I realise that you still
wouldn't be done if that were true.
You don't have to pre-factor, if you choose "Test" or "Time" from the
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 der Peijl
Dear Mersenners: I have bad news and good news. First the bad: David Willmore
has reported a bug in Mlucas 2.6c, which may cause some or all exponents
beyond
the first in a multi-exponent (range) test to yield incorrect results.
For people doing first LL tests on large exponents, since v2.6 is
I wrote to George Woltman:
I wonder if there are any volunteers out there willing to design
and write an attractive front-end for the v19 GIMPS client.
There is, I believe, considerable interest in having a
smart-looking user-interface on the Win/Linux/? desktop.
Running, it would only
I just wanted to apologize for my arrogant response to the FDIV Pentium
error post. I lost several hours of work that day when our company's
installation of SMS rebooted my machine with only five seconds notice, in
order to install a patch and used the message to vent. Please accept my
"Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
On 20 Sep 99, at 1:06, Rick Pali wrote:
The only question that comes to mind is if you had to plough through
factoring before you got to the LL test...but then I realise that you still
wouldn't be done if that were true.
You don't have to pre-factor, if you
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