Mersenne Digest Sunday, 14 February 1999 Volume 01 : Number 509
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:42:55 EST
Subject: Mersenne: (no subject)
The last time I sent results in my total exponents tested was 7 and Cpu years
were
1.670. Since then my account has been updated to 8 exponents and 1.929 years.
This happened after the new server went on line. I'm sure I have checked only
seven
exponents so is there a problem with the servers information?
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From: Roger Vives Miret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:11:37 +0100
Subject: RE: Mersenne: loosing exponents...
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: viernes 12 de febrero de 1999 00:43
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: Mersenne: (no subject)
>
> The last time I sent results in my total exponents tested was 7 and Cpu years
> were
> 1.670. Since then my account has been updated to 8 exponents and 1.929 years.
> This happened after the new server went on line. I'm sure I have checked only
> seven
> exponents so is there a problem with the servers information?
Yeah! I've also have had some problems, but I've lost one exponent.
God knows who was the lucky to have it assigned and if I will be capable
of having it again!
Roger
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From: "david campeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:18:01 PST
Subject: Mersenne: Prize
This is what's on the main Primenet page now:
> Serious research. Totally for fun. Join a search of mathematical >
discovery and become a part of Internet history.
The ONLY mention of the contest is at the bottom of the page, What
should we make of this?
1) it's a glitch.
2) there is no more prize.
3) somebody as won the previous prize !!!
David Campeau,
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From: "Scott Kurowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:35:41 -0800
Subject: Mersenne: Link from Knuth's Home Page
Has anyone seen the first link on Stanford Prof. Knuth's home page Recent News?
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html
scott
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From: Jud McCranie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:59:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Link from Knuth's Home Page
At 02:35 AM 2/13/99 -0800, Scott Kurowski wrote:
>Has anyone seen the first link on Stanford Prof. Knuth's home page Recent
News?
>
I noticed recently that volume 4 is scheduled for publication 4/4/4. (Actually
volume 4A).
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| Jud McCranie [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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| 127*2^96744+1 is prime! (29,125 digits, Oct 20, 1998) |
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From: Petri Holopainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:38:53 +0100
Subject: Mersenne: Disk crash
Hello all,
This is a truly sad day for me, my second hard disk with
Prime95, Linux etc died on me. I usually take a mini-backup
on a ZIP-disk, but to my horror I discovered that I had
forgotten to change the path names in my backup routine,
so the last Prime95 backup was from July 1998....
OK, there went 46.5 days worth of LL testing on exponent
6652097, I had only 4 days to go.... Arrghhh....
Now to my question: how do I restart from here. I have
downloaded Prime95 again, but how do I release my current
exponent (I'm running Prime95 on two machines) without
quitting the other machine too?
I'd like to get restarted as fast as possible... *sigh*
- -- Petri H.
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From: Brian Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:09:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Disk crash
Try adding the line
Test=6652097,62
to the worktodo.ini file. This should make Prime95 begin testing that
exponent.
or,
If you want to remove that exponent from your account, allow Prime95 to
contact the server and assign exponents. Quit Prime95, then add that Test
line to worktodo.ini. This will cause your expected time to go over the
number of days of work requested, and the program will unreserve the
exponent when you next run it.
At 09:38 2/14/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>This is a truly sad day for me, my second hard disk with
>Prime95, Linux etc died on me. I usually take a mini-backup
>on a ZIP-disk, but to my horror I discovered that I had
>forgotten to change the path names in my backup routine,
>so the last Prime95 backup was from July 1998....
>
>OK, there went 46.5 days worth of LL testing on exponent
>6652097, I had only 4 days to go.... Arrghhh....
>
>Now to my question: how do I restart from here. I have
>downloaded Prime95 again, but how do I release my current
>exponent (I'm running Prime95 on two machines) without
>quitting the other machine too?
>
>I'd like to get restarted as fast as possible... *sigh*
>
>-- Petri H.
>
>
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From: Chris Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:42:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Link from Knuth's Home Page
>Has anyone seen the first link on Stanford Prof. Knuth's home page Recent
News?
>http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html
Perhaps Don Knuth is 61 this year. I'm almost certain he's not 2, 3, 5, 7,
13, 17, 19, 31, 89, 107, 127.... or 3021377. Still, it's a nice enough
reason for an entropia link.
Chris Nash
Lexington KY
UNITED STATES
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Co-discoverer of the 7th and 10th largest known primes.
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From: Paul Derbyshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:40:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Link from Knuth's Home Page
At 09:59 AM 2/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I noticed recently that volume 4 is scheduled for publication 4/4/4.
(Actually
>volume 4A).
Volume 4???
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.*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not
- -() < circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a
`*' straight line." -------------------------------------------------
-- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:33:34 EST
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Link from Knuth's Home Page
> >I noticed recently that volume 4 is scheduled for publication 4/4/4.
> (Actually
> >volume 4A).
>
> Volume 4???
Yep. In fact, he has volumes 5 and 6 "scheduled". I forget what
timeframe (my books are at work), but it was something like 2006.
Randy Given
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public key at http://members.aol.com/GivenRandy/pgpkey.asc
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From: "Aaron Blosser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 18:17:38 -0700
Subject: RE: Mersenne: Disk crash
> If you want to remove that exponent from your account, allow Prime95 to
> contact the server and assign exponents. Quit Prime95, then add that Test
> line to worktodo.ini. This will cause your expected time to go over the
> number of days of work requested, and the program will unreserve the
> exponent when you next run it.
If you simply want to unreserve that number, you can just go to the manual
test page at Entropia and unreserve it from there.
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From: Paul Derbyshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:23:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Link from Knuth's Home Page
So, what the hell's he planning to put in V4?
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.*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not
- -() < circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a
`*' straight line." -------------------------------------------------
-- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net
_____________________ ____|________ Paul Derbyshire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmer & Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
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From: Kevin Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:57:17 -0800
Subject: Mersenne: IPS Charts
If a automatic statistics history file containing a log of
daily throughput rates was put up, one of us could probably
write a script to produce an automatically updated graph
similar to the one on http://entropia.com/ips/stats.html
Kevin Sexton
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