Jud McCranie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Mysterious missing Mersenne exponents]
> But I thought that the exponents were reassigned if no result was
> reported in 2 months. These were assigned much more than 2 months ago.
No, they're reassigned if no update is reported in 2 months. The update may be
a keepalive or an expected completion date or almost anything.
Some exponents take much longer than 2 months to LL test on slower machines.
Those are probably just whichever 3M-area exponents got assigned to 286s and
386s :-)
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