At 17:17 1999-09-01 +0200, Dennis J�rgensen wrote:
>
>My problem is that in the first 2 tests I've had one illegal sumout
>error in each (both exponents were around 7.6-7.7 million). As the
>readme text said this probably didn't mean anything I didn't do anything
>about it. But in the test I'm running now I've had 4 of these errors
>(exponent just over 8 million). This seems a bit too much to me, am I
>right?
I don't think you should worry. It often happens, that after my younger
brother have played some games on my (family's) fastest machine (a PII-233)
I can immediately tell he have done so, because when I connect to Internet
Prime95 reports a bunch of "illegal sumout", around 20 at the extreme,
though usually only one or two. I hate when it happens, but as far as I
know it haven't done any harm to my results.
By the way, is anyone interested in a copy of p6972593 at the 6900000th
iteration? I wasted a whole month during the summer to check it, and yes,
it turned out to be prime, regardless of all the "illegal sumout"s the
occured during the process!
Regards,
Johan Winge
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