all,
Thanks to Brian J Beesley, and Peter Lawrence for the info on why my whole
2 simultanious tests idea wouldn't work.
Just an idea that ran through my sleep deprived brain...
>> Also, I'm going to quit first time LL testing. Call me impatient,
>> but I don't
>> want to wait until early July for my exponent to finish, thus I'm going to
>> switch to double-checking.
> Hi, Mr. Impatient!
;-)
> Seriously, though, I wonder how many others will do this now that
> it looks like the chance of grabbing the $50K has gone?
Well this isn't why I'm stopping first time LL tests, but I imagine that
many people will be quitting GIMPS altogether because of the loss of prize
money, unless of course...
> Also, how much latent interest might there be in firing straight at
> the $100K prize, even with run lengths > 1 year?
Well, I'll bet if we ask Scott and George real nice, maybe they will add
specific facilities for checking in this range (in V19?). We can call it
the "win $100,000 range," or something equally corny...
We will of course have to check factors considerably further than we are doing
on our current exponent range (due to the increased LL iteration time.) I
think that someone (Brian...?) did test for all 10,000,000 digit primes
<36,000,000 for factors <2^40. Maybe George can add these to his database, or
something. This range looks promising since the Island theory says the M43
should be around 35462263 (I rounded up to the next prime).
As for the > 1 year runtime, I think the recent "Poaching" thread has shown
that many people are willing to wait more than one year for an LL test to
complete, especially (I imagine) when they get the gleam of capitalistic
ferver in their eyes for erm... scientific discovery.
In any case, the EFF's prize money can only give us exposure, and new members.
After all, the reason for the donated CPU cycles is completly imaterial.
Speaking of the EFF, was the lucky 38th (known) assigned after the EFF
anounced its prize money? If so, did the EFF speed us on our way to victory?
Regards,
-Lucas Wiman
P.S. - I sent out my various files pertaining to my 45% completed exponent,
so please don't send me any more requests for those files...
P.P.S. - 5:36AM, well, I guess that's what I get for reading 3 year old
mersenne mailing list archives. Fasinating reading, that (seriously).
P.P.P.S. - Don't you just love P.P.P.S.'s
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