Mersenne: GIMPS

1999-09-15 Thread STL137
I'm one of many who got fed up with distributed.net and cracking rc5des. If I ever did those, I think get fed up too. It almost seems pointless, breaking codes that someone knows the solution to, just to prove you can do it. At least with GIMPS you get to make real mathematical discoveries for

Mersenne: [Fwd: Proth Numbers]

1999-09-15 Thread FOSSANO Patrick OCISI
Thank you all for your answers (Chris, Bryan, Conrad and George) Patrick Original Message De: Patrick Fossano - OCISI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Proth Numbers A: _Liste Mersenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. Does someone know if "k" and "n" should be of a particular type (even/odd, or

Mersenne: Re: Possible bug in v19 beta ECM?

1999-09-15 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 02:00 PM 9/15/99 +0300, Jukka Santala wrote: I played with ECM-factoring some smaller exponents, and noted that altough worktodo.ini isn't changed, the curve-count displayed by the program is right, and advances as should. So it seems the "finished curves" count is saved in the

Mersenne: Possible minor bug in version 19

1999-09-15 Thread Kevin Sexton
I have an AMD K6 200Mhz with MMX, version 19 lets me set the processor type to AMD K6, but it changes back to pentium the next time it is started. As far as I know this would only affect the estimation of time to complete exponents.

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-15 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 14 Sep 99, at 7:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: Personally I found installing and running it to be an extremely smooth operation, to the point where it takes less that 2 minutes to install on a new machine, including configuration, after which I just forget about it. Yes - I found the same thing

Mersenne: Iters between screen outputs

1999-09-15 Thread Shot
Hi all, I was wondering why the "Iterations between screen outputs" setting was defaultly set on 100, and I thought it was beacuse each screen output takes precious CPU time. But when I changed it from 100 i/o (usually around 0.430 sec/iter) to 10 i/o, nothing really slowed down - the time

Mersenne: Re: Iters between screen outputs

1999-09-15 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 10:29 PM 9/15/99 +0200, Shot wrote: I was wondering why the "Iterations between screen outputs" setting was defaultly set on 100, and I thought it was beacuse each screen output takes precious CPU time. But when I changed it from 100 i/o (usually around 0.430 sec/iter) to 10 i/o,

Mersenne: The new Mac G4

1999-09-15 Thread Jonathan Zylstra
I go to my mailbox and what do I find? In the Sept. 20 Newsweek, Apple has about 6 full pages ( complete with 3 foldouts) describing "a new breakthrough in technology" "This is not just the fastest Max in history. It's the fastest personal computer in history." This is a mighty big claim,

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Chris Jefferson wrote: On 14 Sep 99, at 7:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: Personally I found installing and running it to be an extremely smooth operation, to the point where it takes less that 2 minutes to install on a new machine, including configuration, after which

Mersenne Digest V1 #626

1999-09-15 Thread Mersenne Digest
Mersenne Digest Wednesday, September 15 1999 Volume 01 : Number 626 -- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:26:27 +0100 From: Tony Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: v. 19.0.1 George: I've noticed a reduction in

Mersenne: Apple? Ew.

1999-09-15 Thread STL137
I go to my mailbox and what do I find? S. "There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks" L. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers