Jud McCranie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 01:36 PM 10/21/99 -0500, Herb Savage wrote:
>
>> I remember reading an interview with the Chudnovsky brothers a long time
>>ago. I think they had computed about 4 billion digits at the time. Then
>>they felt that there would be something interesting in
This follows my recent post on this topic.
Maybe, maybe not...
[snip]
>
> Finite linear (over rationals)
> combinations of transcendentals will be transcendental but
> this will keep the set with patterns countable.
>
[snip]
Finite linear combinations of transcendentals MAY be transcendenta
On 21 Oct 99, at 17:16, Grieken, Paul van wrote:
> But I thought it only took longer to complete not that the iteration
> take longer. So I can say if the number doubles it takes 4x more
> time to complete.
Very roughly, yes. There are (p-2) iterations to do for a test of
exponent p. The co
- Original Message -
>From: Jud McCranie
>To: Chip Lynch
>Cc: GIMPS Project Mailing List
>Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 6:59 AM
>Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: Schlagobers, Louisville style
>At 11:47 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Chip Lynch wrote:
>> There's no reason for it to be COMPLETELY random. P
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Jud McCranie wrote:
> At 11:47 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Chip Lynch wrote:
> > There's no reason for it to be COMPLETELY random. Plenty of trancendental
> >numbers have easy to view patterns
>
>
> Only an infinitesimally small % of them have patterns. For each one that
> has a
At 11:47 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Chip Lynch wrote:
> There's no reason for it to be COMPLETELY random. Plenty of
trancendental
numbers have easy to view patterns
Only an infinitesimally small % of them have patterns. For each one
that has a pattern there are an infinite number that don't.
+--
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> >Secondly, I used to feed the output to a virtual terminal, but decided that
> >having a hard copy that I could periodically check was better. I've been
> >piping all the output to a file, such as mprime -d
> >>>/home/GIMPS/tracking.txt. When it finis
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 08:15:31PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>Try adding the line
>
>8:2345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/mprime
>
>to /etc/inittab.
Note that this can degrade performance -- I don't know why, but it might be
more going on when all the VTs are inited, and the memory map gets more
fragm
