>Actually, now that the exponent for M38 is known, I can say
>that I had narrowed it down to 5 candidates (7 before the
>Oregonian article). They were:
>5,750,881 6,382,513 6,836,327 6,972,593
>7,143,163 7,213,391 7,310,981
George's original message said it was in th
At 08:25 AM 7/8/99 -0700, Eric Hahn wrote:
>Fixing this one 'leak' won't do the job, if you know how
>and where to look...
It would have stopped me.
>Besides, *some people* know how to keep quiet about certain
>things. You didn't see this person going around announcing
>it to the world immediat
>NOW it does, after the official announcement Remember
>when Roland found M37? Someone found a 0x000
>residue in the report and beat George to the punch, so Scott
>modified the reports so that they would NOT post a zero
>residue automatically. So THIS time, when word came t
NOW it does, after the official announcement Remember when Roland
found M37? Someone found a 0x000 residue in the report and
beat George to the punch, so Scott modified the reports so that they would
NOT post a zero residue automatically. So THIS time, when word came that
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:50:42PM -0700, Eric Hahn wrote:
>>(Note to Scott - create a dummy non-zero residue a stick it
>>in the cleared exponents report).
>Too late!! The Cleared Exponents Report reads:
I think he meant `next time' :-)
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>(Note to Scott - create a dummy non-zero residue a stick it
>in the cleared exponents report).
Too late!! The Cleared Exponents Report reads:
6972593 62 P 0x 01-Jun-99 13:57 nayan precision-mm
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>On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 07:45:11PM -0700, Eric Hahn wrote:
>>It hasn't been announced yet... but from what little information
>>that is available, i.e. The Oregonian newspaper article, the
>>exponent must be =at least= 6,643,859.
>Hmmm, my guess was at about 6,2 million, but nobody else guessed
At 07:19 05.07.99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm curious - had this already been tested by
>someone else using the defective v17 software?
No.
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I'm curious - had this already been tested by
someone else using the defective v17 software?
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Hi all,
As the newspaper should announce the new prime on Monday or Tuesday,
I've placed the info on the new prime at http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
Congratulations to Nayan Hajratwala and all GIMPS members for our fourth
success!
Each Mersenne announcement is different. This
At 08:04 AM 7/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Well either that or I am *SEARCHER SUPREME*, but then I would have been
>the first to find it, on Landon's site.
>
>I would assume that George would know since he probably gave the exponent
>to him in the first place.
There is a very short list of people tha
> Found it -- 2^6972593-1 :-)
> Well, finding that in 30 seconds must mean you knew it was there, or you
> were incredibly lucky... Does George know about this?
Lucky. I went to yahoo.com and typed in 38th, and then stopped.
I realized that I should look for the record holders, and
through some
At 14:10 01.07.99 +0200, Hoogendoorn, Sander wrote:
>Try Landon Curt Noll
Yes, I tried it after I send that message. The exponent is hardly secret
now that even I can find it :-)
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Took me a bit longer but has M38 has 2098960 digits ;-)
At 02:21 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote:
>>The page belongs to a previous record holder...
>Took me about 30 seconds to find it.
>It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers...
I didn't! Am I _that_ bad at searching the
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> At 02:21 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote:
> >>The page belongs to a previous record holder...
> >Took me about 30 seconds to find it.
> >It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers...
>
> I didn't! Am I _that_ bad at searching
At 08:32 01.07.99 -0300, Nicolau C. Saldanha wrote:
>Try the other record holders, there are not too many of them.
>You can find links to their home pages at www.mersenne.org.
>http://www.mat.puc-rio.br/~nicolau
Don't worry, I've found it already. Looks like I lost the guessing game...
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>>>The page belongs to a previous record holder...
>>Took me about 30 seconds to find it.
>>It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers...
>I didn't! Am I _that_ bad at searching the web? I looked at Gordon's page
>and Roland's page (found nothing), but couldn't find Joel's page.
At 07:17 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote:
>You aren't searching for the right people. He didn't say it was a *GIMPS*
>record holder. You've just gotta know where to look.
Found it -- 2^6972593-1 :-)
Well, finding that in 30 seconds must mean you knew it was there, or you
were incredibly luc
At 07:17 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote:
>All right, here's a hint: he held the record for largest prime, which was
also
>a non-mersenne prime. Check the largest prime by year...
David `Mr. Cray' himself? :-)
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At 02:21 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote:
>>The page belongs to a previous record holder...
>Took me about 30 seconds to find it.
>It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers...
I didn't! Am I _that_ bad at searching the web? I looked at Gordon's page
and Roland's page (found n
>The page belongs to a previous record holder...
Took me about 30 seconds to find it.
It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers...
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I notice that there's a page on the net somewhere that lists
M38. I take it that this isn't meant to be public information
yet?
The page belongs to a previous record holder...
Simon (guessing around 6972???, but then I know now :-).
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On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 07:43:33AM -0400, St. Dee wrote:
>I'll guess p~=6,740,001 :-)
I'd recommend using a prime, but that's your problem, of course. Well,
nobody has gone _over_ your guess, so it probably doesn't matter. (In
all other case, choosing the highest non-checked prime above 6,740,00
> > > Make my guess for M38, p~=6,740,000
> >
> > I'll guess p~=6,740,001 :-)
> >
> > Kel
>
> I would like anyone betting on M38 tu use an exact exponent!
> Not ~= blahblah
> If u dont know any exact exponents, then check
> http://www.entropia.com/primenet/cleared.txt
> and pick one there that c
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Ken Kriesel wrote:
>
> > Make my guess for M38, p~=6,740,000
>
> I'll guess p~=6,740,001 :-)
>
> Kel
I would like anyone betting on M38 tu use an exact exponent!
Not ~= blahblah
If u dont know any exact exponents, then check
http://www.entropia.com/primenet/cleared.txt
and
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Ken Kriesel wrote:
> Make my guess for M38, p~=6,740,000
I'll guess p~=6,740,001 :-)
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Make my guess for M38, p~=6,740,000
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This is a pretty good article... a few things I didn't know; someone
should add a history section to the FAQ, for those of us that haven't been
around too long.
;-)
On the other hand, there are a few things that could be polished up in the
article... to quote:
"Although in theory an infinite n
From: Luke Welsh
> http://www.oregonlive.com/news/99/06/st062601.html
Interesting article, but this particular line took me by surprise: "And if
your computer doesn't find one, take heart. Kurowski plans to offer
financial compensation to participants in distributed Internet computing
networks w
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/99/06/st062601.html
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Chris Nash wrote:
> maybe every electronic device in my house will be
> squaring and subtracting 2 in its idle time.
make that every stitch in your clothing
David Nicol 816.235.1187 UMKC Network Operations [EMAIL PRO
I'm on a roll tonight. Here's another one from me. Sorry guys, but this one
was just too plain freaky to be a coincidence.
> The technical term is "superconductor" and I can conceive it quite fine
:-)
> (This will probably provoke more cryonics postings.)
I can see it now, George will be asking
Chris Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 10^12Hz... wow! Can you imagine the technical innovation needed to get a
> machine where light only travels 0.3mm in a clock cycle? That's some
> densely packed, erm, stuff... probably not silicon, the sort of thing
> we probably can't conceive right now (e
Once again my apologies for lowering the tone, and many thanks for some
sensible and thought-provoking responses!
> Following conservative estimates of cpu power and number of participants
> doubling every two years, I'd guess that we will have a our first billion
> digit prime in 2021, when we
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Chris Nash wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> As we all impatiently await verification of M38(?) a really stupid thought
> occurred to me, so apologies if it's a lot more ignorant than Chuck W.'s
> "definitive" post on the subject of GIMPS v SETI, or distributed computing
> in general.
>
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Colin Percival wrote:
>
> So we are about 7.5*10^10 P90 years away from our first billion digit prime.
> Following conservative estimates of cpu power and number of participants
> doubling every two years, I'd guess that we will have a our first billion
> digit prime in 20
At 07:49 PM 10/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> > My apologies for being so inane, but I wonder whether the EFF *b*illion
>> > digit prime prize or SETI will happen first, too...
>>
> [Gilmore, John (AZ75)] Unless someone comes up with a MUCH faster
> algorithm, or a parallelizable algorit
Chris Nash wrote:
> If the verification of M38 is making us impatient, how on earth would we
> feel if SETI did find E.T., and we had to wait thousands of years for our...
If SETI found a signal, antennae all over the planet would focus on it
and large numbers of brains would consume themselves
> [Gilmore, John (AZ75)] Unless someone comes up with a MUCH faster
> algorithm, or a parallelizable algorithm, since a 90 GHz Pentium
> would
> take (to one significant figure) 80 years to test _one_ exponent, my
> guess
> would be SETI (assuming, of course, that there ac
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Chris Nash [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:32 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:Mersenne: M38, SETI, and other random stuff
> >
> > My apologies for being
e-
> From: Chris Nash [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mersenne: M38, SETI, and other random stuff
>
> Hi folks,
>
> As we all impatiently await verification of M38(?) a really stupid thought
> oc
Hi folks,
As we all impatiently await verification of M38(?) a really stupid thought
occurred to me, so apologies if it's a lot more ignorant than Chuck W.'s
"definitive" post on the subject of GIMPS v SETI, or distributed computing
in general.
If the verification of M38 is making us impatient,
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