What is the consensus on exponent "poaching"?
If I see a test that will take well over a year, is it wrong of me to just
do it myself with a manual assignment?
What would be the consequences of that? I know that if I test it and turn
it in myself, the next time the slow machine does an update, it will get an
"exponent already tested" message and remove it from the worktodo, and if it
does finish up eventually and turn it in, would it count as a double-check
(or even triple-check if it really takes a year)?
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yvan Dutil
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 8:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Mersenne: status of exponents
>
>
> At 07:53 AM 6/11/99 MDT, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> >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.
>
> The limit is 60 days after the completion date, and not since the
> last update.
> These ones never call back in since more than a year. Four of them will be
> still
> allocated a year from now.
>
> prime fact current days
> exponent bits iteration run / to go / exp date updated date
> assigned
> -------- -- ---- --------- ----------------- ---------------
> ---------------
> 4465127 60 470.2 313.8 373.8
> 26-Feb-98 09:23
> 4671439 * 60 369.8 149.2 209.2
> 06-Jun-98 20:31
> 4787599 61 373.9 664.1 724.1
> 02-Jun-98 16:42
> 4833901 61 401.9 407.1 467.1
> 05-May-98 16:35
> 4864591 61 373.0 34.0 94.0
> 03-Jun-98 13:18
> 4876111 61 411.3 51.7 111.7
> 26-Apr-98 07:59
> 4926563 61 436.6 105.4 165.4
> 31-Mar-98 23:58
> 5016679 61 385.5 383.5 443.5
> 22-May-98 02:09
> 5123693 61 369.6 -43.6 16.4
> 06-Jun-98 23:55
>
> Yvan Dutil
>
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