Re: Mersenne: Why is trial factoring of small exponents slower than large ones?

2003-02-12 Thread Eric Hahn
G W Reynolds wrote: I am using mprime 22.12 on a pentium 166 MMX to do trial factoring. For the exponents currently being assigned from primenet it takes this machine about 12 minutes to factor from 2^57 to 2^58. I thought I would try factoring some small exponents (under 1,000,000) from the

Re: Mersenne: Why is trial factoring of small exponents slower than large ones?

2003-02-09 Thread Mary K. Conner
At 05:00 PM 2/7/03 +1300, G W Reynolds wrote: I am using mprime 22.12 on a pentium 166 MMX to do trial factoring. For the exponents currently being assigned from primenet it takes this machine about 12 minutes to factor from 2^57 to 2^58. I thought I would try factoring some small exponents

Re: Mersenne: Why is trial factoring of small exponents slower than large ones?

2003-02-07 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Friday 07 February 2003 04:00, G W Reynolds wrote: I am using mprime 22.12 on a pentium 166 MMX to do trial factoring. For the exponents currently being assigned from primenet it takes this machine about 12 minutes to factor from 2^57 to 2^58. I thought I would try factoring some small

Mersenne: Why is trial factoring of small exponents slower than large ones?

2003-02-06 Thread G W Reynolds
I am using mprime 22.12 on a pentium 166 MMX to do trial factoring. For the exponents currently being assigned from primenet it takes this machine about 12 minutes to factor from 2^57 to 2^58. I thought I would try factoring some small exponents (under 1,000,000) from the nofactors.zip file. I

Re: Mersenne: Why is trial factoring of small exponents slower than large ones?

2003-02-06 Thread Peter-Lawrence . Montgomery
= From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 7 05:15:26 2003 = I am using mprime 22.12 on a pentium 166 MMX to do trial factoring. For the = exponents currently being assigned from primenet it takes this machine about = 12 minutes to factor from 2^57 to 2^58. = = I thought I would try factoring some small

Re: Mersenne: Why is trial factoring of small exponents slower than large ones?

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Woods
Geoffrey Reynolds wrote: For the exponents currently being assigned from primenet it takes this machine about 12 minutes to factor from 2^57 to 2^58. I thought I would try factoring some small exponents (under 1,000,000) from the nofactors.zip file. I put FactorOverride=64 into prime.ini