The factoring test will continue on the chance that a smaller factor may be
found. I believe this is in the interest of doing some kind of analysis on
the smallest factors of composite Mersenne numbers.
At 22:33 9/16/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Computer running prime95 ver 16.4 intel 486 today found a
>factor of the number it was processing, contacted primenet,
>sent the result, obtained a new number to factor, and then
>continued to factor the same number it had just found a factor
>for. I do not have the files immediately to hand but the
>number was in the 6300000 range and the factorization had
>reached the 6th or 7th iteration of 16. Can someone tell me,
>is this what is supposed to happen? I was under the impression
>that once a factor is found, the number is not prime, the test
>is complete, it's time to move on. I had a look in the whatsnew
>and faq, but I can't find anything which mentions this (I did
>not look very hard, so if it is RTFM, or in the maillist
>archive then I humbly apologize).
>
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