RE: estimating primes (was: Re: Mersenne: Islands of Truth)

1999-10-15 Thread Aaron Blosser
I'd also guess that the skipped prime may have been pretty close to 2^5014947-1, and have a number of digits close to 1408773. ... Hmm... I just changed my worktodo.ini to Test=5014947,63 (where's the 63 come from ? it was used for the last number I was assigned). It's saying "Error:

estimating primes (was: Re: Mersenne: Islands of Truth)

1999-10-14 Thread Darxus
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: missing. #2: That the discovered M38, which all we knew about was that it was in the 6M range, was actually around 6.9M, which I was correct about, and #3: How did you make this estimate ? Fit an

Re: estimating primes (was: Re: Mersenne: Islands of Truth)

1999-10-14 Thread Darxus
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: conjectures. (#1: That there's a prime around the 4M range that we're missing. #2: That the discovered M38, which all we knew about was that it was in the 6M

Re: estimating primes (was: Re: Mersenne: Islands of Truth)

1999-10-14 Thread Lucas Wiman
Hmm... I just changed my worktodo.ini to Test=5014947,63 (where's the 63 come from ? it was used for the last number I was assigned). It's saying "Error: Work-to-do file contained composite exponent: 5014947" I suppose that means it's already been tested found to be non-prime ?