Mersenne: Record p-1 factors

2000-02-11 Thread Andy Steward
Dear All, Firstly, apologies to anyone receiving multiple copies of this message. The following are the only six 30+ digit factors found by Pollard's p-1 of which I am aware: (1) p34=8222057557067636644603420882415653 p-1=2^2.3.17.23.43.11657.506797.1632809.1692107.2496721 N=917^43-1

Mersenne: Re: Odd's on finding a factor (part 2)

2000-01-24 Thread Andy Steward
to around 1300 digits input. Good luck anyway! Andy Steward _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers

Re: Mersenne: Odds on finding a factor ?

2000-01-24 Thread Andy Steward
imise it, then run an "A" priority task running in an active window. That way, I ensure that the machine won't be idle if the "A" task completes before my return. The downside is the reduction in resources available to the "A" task while both are running. HTH, Andy St

Re; Mersenne: Lehmer question

1999-07-05 Thread Andy Steward
) then no data It's all a bit thin and arm-waving, but I would be interested to see if a continuation of the series confirms or denies either of these conjectures. Regards, Andy Steward Factorisations of generalised repunits at: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~aads/index.html

Re: Mersenne: Lehmer question

1999-07-05 Thread Andy Steward
20 U 19937 18 U 2 U 21701 1 U 30 U 23209 11 U 19 U 44497 22 U 10 U 86243 1 U 30 U 110503 10 - 17 - 132049 26 U 18 U 216091 11 U 19 U 756839 3 + 3 + 859433 26 U 18 U 1257787 28 - 22 - 1398269 23 - 12 - 2976221 18 U 2 U 3021377 28 - 22 - 6972593 6 U 9 U Regards, Andy