Re: Mersenne: Question about speed...

1999-06-21 Thread Anonymous
Hi, At 12:42 AM 6/21/99 +0200, Otto Bruggeman wrote: >Sorry to bother you people with this but can anybody tell me why my celeron >400 all of a sudden slows to (almost) half speed when it reaches the >1,000,000,000 (actually a little more, i guess it's around 2^30) mark in >factoring numbers??? M

Re: Mersenne: Question about speed...

1999-06-20 Thread Anonymous
> >Sorry to bother you people with this but can anybody tell me why my celeron >400 all of a sudden slows to (almost) half speed when it reaches the >1,000,000,000 (actually a little more, i guess it's around 2^30) mark in >factoring numbers??? My p233mmx slows about 15 percent. The numbers >curre

Re: Mersenne: Question about speed...

1999-06-20 Thread Anonymous
At 08:41 PM 6/20/99 -0400, lrwiman wrote: > >Doubtful, since the LL remainder never goes above Mp. The only thing that >inherantly increases is the iteration count, which takes up about log_2(p) >bits. Not that much... >P.S. 2^30 is ~100,000,000 >not ~1,000,000 Actually 2^30 is ~ 1,000,000,000

Re: Mersenne: Question about speed...

1999-06-20 Thread Anonymous
>> Sorry to bother you people with this but can anybody tell me why my celeron >> 400 all of a sudden slows to (almost) half speed when it reaches the >> 1,000,000,000 (actually a little more, i guess it's around 2^30) mark in >> factoring numbers??? My p233mmx slows about 15 percent. > I'm just

Re: Mersenne: Question about speed...

1999-06-20 Thread Anonymous
At 12:42 AM 6/21/99 +0200, Otto Bruggeman wrote: > >Sorry to bother you people with this but can anybody tell me why my celeron >400 all of a sudden slows to (almost) half speed when it reaches the >1,000,000,000 (actually a little more, i guess it's around 2^30) mark in >factoring numbers??? My p

Mersenne: Question about speed...

1999-06-20 Thread Anonymous
Hi, Sorry to bother you people with this but can anybody tell me why my celeron 400 all of a sudden slows to (almost) half speed when it reaches the 1,000,000,000 (actually a little more, i guess it's around 2^30) mark in factoring numbers??? My p233mmx slows about 15 percent. The numbers current