Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., from the status.shtml page: --- Mersenne Exponent Test State --- Assigned in Tests Cleared Since Last Synchronization Factoring only: 8683 Factored composite: 13505 Lucas-Lehmer testing : 27314

Re: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread George Woltman
Hello all, At 10:09 AM 11/14/2001 +0100, Henk Stokhorst wrote: --- Mersenne Exponent Test State --- Prime, VERIFIED : 1 Prime, UNVERIFIED : 1 --

Mersenne: Mersenne prime #39

2001-11-14 Thread George Woltman
Hi all, I've exchanged email with the discoverer. It looks like we've found the 39th known Mersenne prime - not a hacking attempt. Well done everyone! My verification will complete November 24th. I'll see if I can't get Ernst Mayer to do the official different program - different

Re: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Jeff Woods
At 10:19 AM 11/14/01 -0500, you wrote: There has been an unverified prime reported! It passes the 32-bit security code that comes on every results.txt line. This is not overly difficult to forge though. The user reporting the prime has completed 3 other LL tests and seems to have signed up

Re: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Jud McCranie
There has been an unverified prime reported! It passes the 32-bit security code that comes on every results.txt line. This is not overly difficult to forge though. The user reporting the prime has completed 3 other LL tests I think it is quite interesting if this is only his/her 4th LL

RE: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Aaron Blosser
Bummer... it doesn't show that anymore. :( George/Scott: can one of you verify what the situation is? Finding a new one, even unverified, is big news, but if it's a glitch, we'd want to know so we don't get our hopes up. :) Aaron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread George Woltman
Hi Aaron, At 11:00 AM 11/14/2001 -0800, Aaron Blosser wrote: Bummer... it doesn't show that anymore. :( George/Scott: can one of you verify what the situation is? Finding a new one, even unverified, is big news, but if it's a glitch, we'd want to know so we don't get our hopes up. :)

Re: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Henk Stokhorst
George Woltman wrote: In fact, one of the reasons I was a little suspicious of the report this morning was that I had not received the primenet email. It seems that the eagle-eyed Henk Stokhorst may have been the first to know that M#39 was uncovered. Achim Passauer, also from Europe,

Re: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Dieter Schmitt
Hi, at November 1, I saved a copy of Assignments Report. Today I downloaded the new Assignments Report and the Cleared Exponents Report. Stored the three files into a database. Knowing the new prime exponent probably had been listed at Nov. 1 but isn't listed today .. that's enough. Doing

Mersenne: Unverified discovery makes Slashdot.

2001-11-14 Thread Nathan Russell
For better or for worse (I think for better - it should attract a few searchers) the new Mersenne report has made it to the popular technical/open-source/geek news site Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/14/1849203mode=nested Sadly, there are a few errors in this article, at

Re: Mersenne: Mersenne prime #39

2001-11-14 Thread Gerry Snyder
George Woltman wrote: Hi all, I've exchanged email with the discoverer. It looks like we've found the 39th known Mersenne prime - not a hacking attempt. Well done everyone! Hooray for us! The first prime since I started. Would it be a reasonably easy task to compute and post

Re: Mersenne: Unverified discovery makes Slashdot.

2001-11-14 Thread Luke Welsh
At 09:27 PM 11/14/01 -0500, Nathan Russell wrote: For better or for worse (I think for better - it should attract a few searchers) the new Mersenne report has made it to the popular technical/open-source/geek news site Slashdot. [...] I couldn't care less about the grammer issues in the

Mersenne: Fw: The Mersenne Newsletter, issue #18

2001-11-14 Thread ribwoods
Brian Beesley wrote: On 12 Nov 2001, at 23:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Consequent elimination of once-L-Led Mnumbers by second-round factoring would account for some of the difference, though I doubt there've been 30,000. [snip] 70,000 double check assignments would be expected

Mersenne: paaaaaaaaarrrrrty!

2001-11-14 Thread Spike Jones
George Woltman wrote: ...I'll see if I can't get Ernst Mayer to do the official different program - different CPU architecture verification Speaking of Ernst Mayer, lets have a Bay Area GIMPS party! Same place as before? Ill have the prime rib. {8-] spike

RE: Mersenne: prime

2001-11-14 Thread Aaron Blosser
Hey, no fair... you're not going to share the results of your investigation? :) I guess we can all wait for verification... sigh... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mersenne-invalid- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dieter Schmitt Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001