At 11:38 AM 6/13/99 +0200, Sturle Sunde wrote:
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>And exactly how do you think that justifies that a GIMPS-participant does
>it knowingly?
I don't think it is justified, except for cases where they seem to have been
abandoned, or someone is purposefully holding up the project.
>This isn't a competition to finish all exponents in turn.
But the idea is to get a complete list of Mersenne primes (up to the limits of
our computation). One of the criticisms of previous projects is that they were
out for records. As soon as one machine found a record prime, the rest jumped
ahead to look for another record rather than checking all of the range. GIMPS
is supposed to avoid that problem. GIMPS is designed to check all numbers, and
even double check them.
> This is a fun project
It is also to be useful.
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