Mersenne: Re: Icon

2000-02-03 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:58:17PM -0500, Vincent J. Mooney Jr. wrote: Prime95 disappears when I minimize it. It used to be on the taskbar (right word?) at the bottom of the WIN98 screen. Prime95 doesn't disappear -- if you look in your system tray, you will find a small Prime95 icon that you

Re: Mersenne: Version 20 memory questions

2000-02-03 Thread Barry Hansen
Here is one (lonely?) vote to set the defaults rather high. I have some over-generalizations that encourage you to let the system manage memory itself. I expect that Mersenne generally runs on the fastest machines, which tend to have lots of memory. I think it's great we can put it to use! If

Re: Mersenne: Re: Smooth and hairy numbers

2000-02-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If smooth numbers are ones whose prime factors are all small, what then are hairy numbers? Is there an official definition? "And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:" (Gen. 27:11) Also,

Mersenne: Results of version 20 memory questions

2000-02-03 Thread George Woltman
Hi everyone, Thanks to all that replied to my earlier email. Here I'll summarize, in no particular order, the important points in the replies It seems the majority of responders feel the prudent decision is for prime95 to use the minimum amount of memory by default. I will

Mersenne: The return of poaching?

2000-02-03 Thread Gordon Bower
Some of you may have noticed, as I have, that the incomplete double-checks in the 2-2.5M range have been being finished up very quickly the past few weeks, much more so than the past several months. A quick look in the cleared exponents file reveals many recent results reported by a user "rick"

Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #686

2000-02-03 Thread STL137
I am using WIN 98. How do I set up an icon on the desktop to kick off PRIME95 ( If the computer crashes, give it the three-fingered salute. Then, if you have Prime95 set as a Win95 Service, it'll start automatically. Stephan "Heil Gates!" Lavavej

Mersenne: Re: Smooth and hairy numbers

2000-02-03 Thread Geosas
If smooth numbers are ones whose prime factors are all small, what then are hairy numbers? Is there an official definition? "And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:" (Gen. 27:11) George S.