On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> missing. #2: That the discovered M38, which all we knew about was that it was
> in the 6M range, was actually around 6.9M, which I was correct about, and #3:
How did you make this estimate ? Fit an exponential curve to the known
primes, and extrapolate the 1st one that should have at least 1m digits ?
I think I used to know how to do that, unfortunately at this point I have
little idea.
Why isn't something like this used in GIMPS to select numbers to work on ?
-- use current known primes to estimate the location of the next, start
allocating numbers to work on at that number, and keep alternating +/-1
till it's found.... ?
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