Mersenne: duplicate messages

2002-03-26 Thread Wayne Tucker
Hey everyone, sorry about taking so long to get around to tracking down why those duplicate messages are being sent to the list from our mail server. So far this is the only list that we are having this problem with, so I'm not sure what the cause is yet - I'm not sure if it is a problem with the

SV: Mersenne: Factors aren't just factors

2002-03-26 Thread Torben Schlüntz
>reaction to another mail about this >>This happens all the time in different shapes so I would expect some >>happy day we found a crosslinked factor. >we will never find a factor who is a factor of Mx and also of My >simply because every factor give only one count with my algoritm and is factor

Re: Mersenne: Client configuration for a Duron?

2002-03-26 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 15:32, Markus Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What settings should I use in Prime95 on a 1 GHz Duron? Since there is no > Duron in the options menu I tried Athlon, it seemed like the closest > choice, but the performance I get is not quite as good as I expec

Mersenne: Client configuration for a Duron?

2002-03-26 Thread Markus Landgren
Hi, What settings should I use in Prime95 on a 1 GHz Duron? Since there is no Duron in the options menu I tried Athlon, it seemed like the closest choice, but the performance I get is not quite as good as I expected compared to other people's benchmarks (about 25% slower). Should I switch to anot

Re: Mersenne: Fwd: Predicting Mersenne Primes

2002-03-26 Thread teun Tilburg University
Hello Brian, > In the statistical sense, yes, it is possible to predict. That is rather > similar to the statistician's argument during the briefing for the first 1000 > bomber raid over Cologne in May 1942 that predicted only two aircraft would > collide, despite the incredible density of aircr