At 03:22 PM 7/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
>This is my fear. Right now, GIMPS is the only major concerted effort to find
>Mersenne Primes, and we ought to keep it that way. This has led to orderly
>searching, and not a mad free-for-all. The prize money should (and must!) go
>entirely to the discoverer, because any attempts to do otherwise will most
>likely lead to this sort of dire fragmentation.
While I agree with this, if the effort does NOT fragment and jump ahead to
potential 10MM-digits, someone else is likely to find and claim that $100K
with a Proth prime, since checking those will take far less time than a
Mersenne test of the same order.
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