- Original Message -
From: "Torben Schlüntz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Daran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 11:17 PM
Subject: SV: Mersenne: TF - an easy way to cheat
> But my name is Torben...
My apologies.
With an unusual spelling to my own
On Saturday 21 September 2002 16:15, Daran wrote:
>
> > ... through 64 bits the algorithm runs much faster than it does for 65
>
> bits
>
> > and above. The factor is around 1.6 rather than 2.
>
> Good point, and one which I didn't consider in my reply. But the ratio
> must be different for the P
- Original Message -
From: "Jacek Kolonko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GIMPS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 5:38 PM
Subject: RE: Mersenne: TF - an easy way to cheat
> > >One way to avoid this disappointment personally w
- Original Message -
From: "Brian J. Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Torben Schlüntz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: TF - an easy way to cheat
> On Friday 20 Se
> >One way to avoid this disappointment personally would be to focus
solely
> >upon TF or
> >P-1.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no way in my version (22.8.1) to
> set the client to do only P-1.
>
Read undoc.txt in your Prime95 directory:
You can force prime95 to skip the trial facto
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:33:04 +0100, Daran wrote:
>One way to avoid this disappointment personally would be to focus solely
>upon TF or
>P-1.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no way in my version (22.8.1) to
set the client to do only P-1.
Nathan
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> Anyone receiving a TF task could edit the worktodo.ini from
> Factor=20.abc.def,59
> to
> Factor=20.abc.def,65
> He would receive approx. twice the credit the effort is worth.
In fact the probability of finding a factor would be less than one sixth.
[...]
> Would this cheat be trapped later b
On Friday 20 September 2002 22:42, Torben Schlüntz wrote:
> Anyone receiving a TF task could edit the worktodo.ini from
> Factor=20.abc.def,59
> to
> Factor=20.abc.def,65
> He would receive approx. twice the credit the effort is worth.
Not quite - even allowing for the 1/2^6 effort involved in TF
