On 1 Oct 2001, at 22:23, Jean-Yves Canart wrote:
> I have browsed some logs I archived long time ago and I have found
> this:
>
> In may 1998, one user, "tomfakes", cleared around 80 exponents with
> factor found = "1" It was in the range 7013000-7055000.
Well, (s)he's not lying - 0 = n (mod 1)
If we could indeed track these to a single user, I've got about 25-30 AMD
1.2 GHz processors that I could throw at the situation for a short time,
just to quickly re-trial factor these and put our minds to rest.
Aaron
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> However if it could be established that all the
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Date: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Mersenne: Re: Factoring Failure?
> > Either way, GIMPS
> > has never considered missing a factor as a big deal. It only mean
> At 04:07 PM 9/30/2001 -0700, Daniel Swanson wrote:
> >I went through the Cleared Exponents
> >report looking for other examples of factors found during
> double-checks that
> >should have been found during the initial factorization.
> > 5977297 53 DF6726544627832489
> > 6019603 57 DF
