Hi all,
At 04:02 PM 6/27/99 -0400, Jeff Woods wrote:
>Because of
>the EFF award money rules, we "GIMPS at large" will not be permitted to
>know what the exponent was, or who discovered it, until an article has been
>published in a peer-review academic research magazine or such.
The EFF rules have been clarified such that if two claims are made on
the $50,000 award, then the discovery date determines the winner.
This gives us plenty of protection in announcing the new prime now.
Scott gave out the press release today to the San Jose Mercury News
and I should be emailing the list and updating my web pages soon.
Note that sometimes these "human interest" type stories are held
until the weekend for publication.
I'd like to thank everyone for their patience while any kinks were
worked out in the EFF claims process. They have never said we couldn't
announce the new prime, but I've held off until we were sure it was
risk-free to do so.
>>Slowinski used to test huge numbers of primes...is he still doing that?
David Slowinski is no longer working for Cray, so I doubt that he is
still orchestrating an organized search. GIMPS does have one member
who uses Slowinski and Gage's program and a Cray to look for primes.
The latest prime is being verified by him. Paul Gage, who still does
work for Cray, can then backup the new find.
Regards,
George
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