Re: Mersenne: New Goal?

1999-09-01 Thread Jeff Woods
At 09:27 AM 9/1/99 -0400, you wrote: It is very likely that we will succed to reach the Y2K goal. Maybe it is time now to set a new one? I stick with the suggestion I made a few months ago: 10 000 000 before the new millenium? What do you think? I think we'll now endlessly debate whether the

Re: Mersenne: Several illegal sumout

1999-09-01 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 05:17 PM 9/1/99 +0200, Dennis Jørgensen wrote: But in the test I'm running now I've had 4 of these errors (exponent just over 8 million). This seems a bit too much to me, am I right? Your result is likely OK. Prime95 recovers well from this error and it not usually an indicator that

Re: Mersenne: Several illegal sumout

1999-09-01 Thread Johan Winge
At 17:17 1999-09-01 +0200, Dennis Jørgensen wrote: My problem is that in the first 2 tests I've had one illegal sumout error in each (both exponents were around 7.6-7.7 million). As the readme text said this probably didn't mean anything I didn't do anything about it. But in the test I'm running

Mersenne: too hot? too cold? perfect?

1999-09-01 Thread Spike Jones
With every Mersenne number there is an associated perfect number, the sum of whose factors exactly equal the number. I discovered a fascinating thing today, for which I must introduce some new terminology. If a number is greater than the sum of its factors, let it be a cold number. If a number