Re: Mersenne: What criteria are the cause for work that gets discredited?

2001-08-22 Thread CARLETON GARRISON
George, > >On George's top producer page (the one that gets updated less > >than daily or even possibly weekly - how often does it get updated?), > > Roughly weekly. > > Thus, users that use the newer > faster programs are given the same credit as GIMPS veterans that used > slower versions. > > T

Re: Mersenne: What criteria are the cause for work that gets discredited?

2001-08-18 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 04:37 PM 8/16/2001 -0400, CARLETON GARRISON wrote: >I had the recent occassion to see a Double Check LL test - find a >factor. On George's top producer page (the one that gets updated less >than daily or even possibly weekly - how often does it get updated?), Roughly weekly. >it says

Mersenne: What criteria are the cause for work that gets discredited?

2001-08-16 Thread CARLETON GARRISON
I had the recent occassion to see a Double Check LL test - find a factor.  On George's top producer page (the one that gets updated less than daily or even possibly weekly - how often does it get updated?), it says that finding a later factor or an incorrect LL result will cause loss of cred