Re: Mersenne: Rather naive question

[Jud McCranie]

At 01:20 AM 5/17/99 -0700, Jiho Kim wrote:
>When a machine is assigned "factoring" is that what it's doing?  Or are they
>trying to find as many factors for known composite as they can? 

No, it is trying to find 1 small factor to avoid having to do the Lucas-Lehmer test.