Re: Mersenne: status of exponents

[Jeff Woods]

>WHY are these others so concerned about a few exponents not being
>finished soon?  What possible difference does it make to them?

It doesn't affect me personally in the slightest, other than wanting to see 
that line item on the GIMPS home page under "Milestones", that we know M37 
is truly M37 and not M38.   Part of the reason many of us do this is to see 
the progress in material ways like that, and I don't want to have to wait 
until 2003 to see that milestone reached, when it is one computer holding 
up the chase.  That's not the case today (one holdout stopping us) but it 
won't be too long before it is...
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