Re: Mersenne: 10M digit prime testing question....

2001-08-16 Thread bjb
On 16 Aug 2001, at 23:58, Jeffrey Euclide wrote: > Just curious of something here, since I've upgraded to a faster > machine, 1.333GHz(1.47 oc'd), 512M DDR on a win2k platform if it would > be prudent to take on factoring 10M digit primes, thanks ahead Prudent? In what respect? You're much

Mersenne: 10M digit prime testing question....

2001-08-16 Thread Jeffrey Euclide
Hi All, Just curious of something here, since I've upgraded to a faster machine, 1.333GHz(1.47 oc'd), 512M DDR on a win2k platform if it would be prudent to take on factoring 10M digit primes, thanks ahead JR _ Unsubscr

Mersenne: What criteria are the cause for work that gets discredited?

2001-08-16 Thread CARLETON GARRISON
I had the recent occassion to see a Double Check LL test - find a factor.  On George's top producer page (the one that gets updated less than daily or even possibly weekly - how often does it get updated?), it says that finding a later factor or an incorrect LL result will cause loss of cred