At 08:43 PM 11/14/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Would it be a reasonably easy task to compute and post the total >(approximate) number of LL P90 years since the last prime was found?
I don't want to be too accurate or some other clever person might figure out the exponent :) If you were to LL test every exponent with no known factor from M#38 to M#39 it would take more than 16,000 P-90 CPU years. Now we haven't done every one of those LL tests, but that total does not include all the double-checking work we've done, LL tests we've done below M#38 and LL tests we've done above M#39. I'd guess the actual total could be as high as 20,000 CPU years since M#38 was found. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
