Mersenne: Re: the flaw in the ointment

2000-02-13 Thread EWMAYER
Jeremy Blosser wrote: >So for each squaring, we have x left shifts and adds, where x is no larger >that p. Hi, Jeremy: A couple years ago I discussed the same issue with an old schoolfriend of mine, who is a specialist in microelectronics. He said, sure, with a giant binary shifter (perhaps imp

Mersenne Digest V1 #693

2000-02-13 Thread Mersenne Digest
Mersenne Digest Sunday, February 13 2000 Volume 01 : Number 693 -- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:33:21 -0500 From: Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mersenne: "How Many Angels, How Many Pins?" Or PrimeNet

Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #693

2000-02-13 Thread SwansonCJ
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Mersenne: Curious Prime95 behavior?

2000-02-13 Thread St. Dee
Hi, I'm running Prime95 on a machine with a PII-400 doing LL tests. The machine finished up an exponent in the 9,000,000 range (512K) and started doing an LL test on an exponent around 828. I expected the iteration times to speed up (384K or 448K, not sure which for the lower exponent), but