>
> > 4-Redirect them to a more productive task (i.e. Double-Checking small number).
>
> This is hard. Double-checking really needs to be done on different
> hardware & using a different program. The problem is that none of the
> alternative programs are anything like as efficient as Prime95. And
> there are very, very few exponents which have been tested using
> something else, but not with Prime95/NTPrime/mprime on an Intel CPU
> based system.
>
"Very, very few exponents" still means several hundreds. The file hrf3
contains 296 exponents tested with MacLucas and 244 tested with mersenne1.
These could be double checked on Intel CPU.
Marc-Etienne
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