Seeing as how the Sega Dreamcast was officially released here in the U.S.
today... and the list has been REALLY quiet (due to school starting?), I
looked at the specs... and sure 'nuff, apparently, the Hitachi SH4 can do 2
FPU ops per cycle (single or double precision) and has the good ole SIMD
Hi all,
Sorry for the delay in releasing v19. It is now available for
mersenne mailing list members to beta test. If all goes well,
it will be officially released to all GIMPSers in a few weeks.
You can get the new version at ftp://entropia.com/gimps/p95b.zip
To upgrade prime95, stop and exit
Scott/all,
I downloaded the newest beta for Prime95V19, and set it to ask for 10,000,000
digit Mersennes. In my worktodo.ini file, I got the line:
Test=33219379,32
This surprised me! I had tested this number to 2^47, and Alex Kruppa had
tested it to at least 2^55 (further investigation
Hi,
At 09:43 PM 9/9/99 -0400, Matthew Smith wrote:
I love the new beta. It's much faster and accomodates my PIII. But why is
it factoring my most recently assigned number, and not the one I was working
on before I upgraded?
That's normal. The new version does more factoring than the old
Hi all,
One more thing. The timings in prime95 have been recalibrated to my
PII-400 instead of my old, deceased P-90.
What does that mean? The short explanation is that you should not
believe the estimates given in Test/Status. Over time these estimates
will become accurate again.
Why is
Mersenne Digest Thursday, September 9 1999 Volume 01 : Number 623
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:01:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lucas Wiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Macintosh Speeds
Now my question to the
