Mersenne: Error: Illegal Sumout
I think my Prime95 broke! I am on iteneration 479162/5518463 and get a continuous stream of "ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT" messages which are constantly sent to the primenet server. I am running version 16.3.1 of Prime95. I have no choice but to shut it down until I figure out what went wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks, Chuck Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mersenne: Re: 128-bit CPU
To the exact cent? I guess you have not heard the news that the Euro dollar is causing. The calculations must be correct to the 10th of a mil for the conversion factors. Thus one needs E,EEE,EEE,EEE,EEE.c (yes, 5 decimals to round up.) It is known in Europe as maybe worse than the Y2K issue. In Italy, they don't have decimals at all for the Lira so adding any decimals at all is a headache. P.S. All these side notes being passed around are very interesting, even if off the topic somewhat. At 01:48 PM 10/28/98 -0800, you wrote: With regard to the need for 128-bit cpus: Another area that will inevitably demand such data types is the financial industry. If you use packed BCD (very popular with the "exact" calculations that CPAs demand) and you want to represent anything under $100 trillion to the exact cent, you already need 64 bits for the significant digits, which means the sign nibble pushes you over the 64-bit limit. Budgets (especially national ones) are only going to get bigger and things like the Euro and conversions between currencies will make it necessary for the international financial types to go to such data sizes. Truett Lee Smith San Francisco, CA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mersenne: Error: Illegal Sumout
At 01:29 PM 10/28/98 -0700, Chuck Baker wrote: I think my Prime95 broke! I am on iteneration 479162/5518463 and get a continuous stream of "ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT" messages which are constantly sent to the primenet server. I am running version 16.3.1 of Prime95. I have no choice but to shut it down until I figure out what went wrong. Any suggestions? This is probably an interaction with some new piece of software. I know that the OS should protect you from such interactions, but this problem is quite common. Have you installed any new device drivers lately - especially those that might use MMX (audio and midi cards)? Are you running any new programs? The good news is that these errors do not seem to affect prime95's accuracy (unlike other error messages). A recent double-check had 3 SUMOUT errors, but the residues matched anyway. Hope that helps, George
Re: Mersenne: Re: 128-bit CPU
With regard to the need for 128-bit cpus: Another area that will inevitably demand such data types is the financial industry. If you use packed BCD (very popular with the "exact" calculations that CPAs demand) and you want to represent anything under $100 trillion to the exact cent, you already need 64 bits for the significant digits, which means the sign nibble pushes you over the 64-bit limit. Budgets (especially national ones) are only going to get bigger and things like the Euro and conversions between currencies will make it necessary for the international financial types to go to such data sizes. Truett Lee Smith San Francisco, CA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mersenne: Error: Illegal Sumout
At 01:29 PM 10/28/98 -0700, Chuck Baker wrote: [...] "ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT" [...] Any suggestions? It happened to me. Turned out to be bad tag RAM. --Luke
Mersenne: Bannerz
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