>>Yes. I would get very pissed if someone snatched an exponent which I
>>already spent a year of work on, and am still working on, without even
>>telling me in advance.
> We are all in some danger of this happening because of non-GIMPS people
> working on Mersenne primes (with Crays, etc).
And exactly how do you think that justifies that a GIMPS-participant does
it knowingly? I still think this is bad behaviour, regardless of what a
non-GIMPS-person might do with his Cray.
This isn't a competition to finish all exponents in turn. This is a fun
project where everybody, including people with slow computers, should be
welcome to participate without having people making their one-year of
CPU-time turn into nothing by snatching their exponents. Go away and
make your own project for PIII's and Crays only, if you think they are
the only computers worthy of participating.
How would you feel if the exponent you took turned out to be a new
Mersenne prime?
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