Re: Mersenne: Hitting the snail...

[John R Pierce]

>I estimate that a P90 would take ~50 days to test an exponent in the 5mill
>range.  If the computer was on only 6 hours a day, the time would be 200
>days.  If the computer was testing only 1 hour a day, the time would be 1200
>days.


get ready for a heart attack.

Got my first SIX million candidate today when I had to wipe and reload one my
systems (lost about a weeks work too if I can't figure out how to recover the
prime95 directory off the old drive, grrr!)

On a pentium MMX 200MHz 430HX type system its getting .445 or so.  OUCH.

-jrp