George,
I have plenty of reasons to feel that you should not be so worried with what
happened :
- Since I joined GIMPS project more than three years ago, you always
impressed me with your thorough work.
You have proved several times your professionalism, up to the way you
announced this bad news, honestly and humbly.
- Don't forget your motto : 'just for fun'. A small bug in a program whose
primary goal is to entertain all of us is nothing compared with e.g what
happens now in Kosovo..
- Even the great Mersenne himself commited two bugs, by incorrectly
'proving' primality of M(67) and M(257).
You have been wrong only once...
George, the hardest is now behind us, let's discover M38 quickly and
everything will be forgotten.
Regards,
Jean-Yves
-----Original Message-----
From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 April 1999 01:07
Subject: Mersenne: IMPORTANT: BUG IN VERSION PRIME95 17
>Hi all,
>
> Please forgive me. I'm terribly sorry. I've discovered a bug
>in version 17 of prime95 and its variants (ntprime, mprime, OS/2 version).
>All Lucas-Lehmer tests above 4,194,304 (except those that were done as
>a continuation of a v16 run) are no good. I feel sick.
>
________________________________________________________________
Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
