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 version. It is factoring the second number so that if it does have a factor it can get you a new exponent to test and keep your "days of work queued up" greater than 10. Regards, George _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers