At 01:42 AM 9/26/1999 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote:
>> not, but, what would it show? A progress bar, maybe... anything else? There
>> isn't really anything else to show. Intermediate results of the LL test
>> don't themselves have a lot of meaning (even the final result, if non-zero,
>> is devoid of m
Hi,
I think you should be very careful about how much graphical information is
to be represented.
I have just joined GIMPS recently after using SETI@home. That program has a
nice graphical interface, but many people, my self included, spent much time
and effort to either disable the display, or
> > I must admit, I dallied (albeit very briefly) with the bovine rc5 client.
>
> Gack! About the only manufactured challenge comes from ID software.
Should read About the only more manufactured challenge comes form ID
software. :)
-Lucas
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> not, but, what would it show? A progress bar, maybe... anything else? There
> isn't really anything else to show. Intermediate results of the LL test
> don't themselves have a lot of meaning (even the final result, if non-zero,
> is devoid of much interpretation). There's not a lot you could plo
> I think few of us fully realize the _enormous_ amount of (highly
> optimized) processing required each iteration to achieve something that
> looks so simple: a squaring, minus 2, mod (2^p-1).
> Whatever the correct figure, the program doesn't show you what it's doing.
This is an interesting poi
Jukka Santala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Friday 24 September 1999 at 5:25
PM:
> Though you ask this, I find the topic rather appropriate for the list,
> especially given the angle of "HOW can we visualize the process of
> mathemathical operations.
That brings me to the following observation:
