On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Rick Pali wrote:
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> > How about an option when you hit "QUIT GIMPS" to
> > upload your P and Q files to Primenet, so someone
> > can at least finish the job?
>
> I'm running an exponent in the 33 million area and the save-files are over
> seven megabytes in size! That would require no small amount of server
> space...
Wow. I'd been assuming this was basically being done. How unfortunate.
I believe I would not have stopped processing the number I was working on
to start a 10m digit number if I'd known this... I would have just set it
to work on a 10m digit number as soon as it finished the current one.
It might be good to make this very clear.. maybe in the client or
something, when somebody opts to give up on a number, that their work so
far on it will be lost.
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