At 07:57 PM 12/2/2001 +0000, Gordon Spence wrote: >A particularly sore point. If we maintained a top "savers" list whereby >for every factor found you were credited with the time an LL test would >have taken, then I and the other "Lone Mersenne Hunters" would pulverise >these big university teams.
Should George get credit for eliminating all those composite exponents when he made his initial list in the mid-1990's? He probably found over a dozen times as many composites in (at a guess) under two minutes than we'll EVER find, at least until the project is extended past 80M. Nathan _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
