Mersenne: V19 Bug in Factoring Timing?

1999-10-10 Thread Walt Mankowski
I just upgraded this morning to the latest Linux version of Linux, v19.0.2. The box with the problem is a 486-66 running Red Hat 5.0. I'm noticing some strange numbers in its output: Factoring M10533203 to 2^64 is 39.83% complete. 310.800 sec. Factoring M10533203 to 2^64 is 39.84% complete.

Mersenne: Error 2250 connecting to PrimeNet

1999-10-10 Thread Walt Mankowski
I have a 486-66 running RedHat 5.0 which I just upgraded to mprime 19.0.2 this morning. It's getting error 2250 when connecting to PrimeNet. Here's what I see when I select "Help/About PrimeNet Server" from the mprime menu: Your choice: 20 Contacting PrimeNet Server. ERROR 2250: Server

Re: probability of primeness (was: Re: Mersenne: splitting up 10m digit primes)

1999-10-12 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 10:53:18PM -0400, Darxus wrote: I'm hoping what I have to say in this email might be important. On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, George Woltman wrote: At 04:12 PM 10/12/99 -0400, you wrote: And how is the probability of finding a prime calculated ? It is roughly

Re: Mersenne: 386SX

2000-03-04 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 12:27:52PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: I just installed Slackware 7.0 on an old 386SX and I want it to do distributed computing of some kind. However, the lowest CPU mprime allows is a 486. What can I do? phew. a 386sx is SO slow I really can't imagine WHAT

Re: Mersenne: scientific american

2001-07-23 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:37:32PM -0400, Nathan Russell wrote: I agree that this is unfair, especially given that SETI is probably the only project to have more than ten thousand users and NO results Not that they've told anybody about, at any rate... :-)

Re: Mersenne: Double-check assignment lost?

2003-02-23 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:19:03AM -0500, George Woltman wrote: It is highly unlikely that someone poached this exponent. It is not near a milestone and the exponent is not of any particular significance. Most likely, either 1) you got a recycled exponent and the result was belatedly