Mersenne Digest Friday, November 19 1999 Volume 01 : Number 661 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:08:32 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #660 << 100! arithmetic operations. >> Don't you love arguments that go like, "if you had a supercomputer of the gods, by which I mean one that can use every elementary particle in the universe as a billion-teraflop processor, you STILL couldn't..."? I do. Or, "If you had a storage device of the gods, you STILL couldn't store S in the LucasLehmer sequence after blahblah iterations". Heh. S. "The list will be able to see my paper on Mersenne primes the Tuesday before Thanksgiving" L. _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:45:04 -0500 From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Linux factoring Hi all, Linux users that are factoring may want to get mprime version 19.1 dated November 19. The floating point data in the factoring module was not aligned on an 8-byte boundary. This caused mprime to factor about 35% slower than prime95. Regards, George _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ End of Mersenne Digest V1 #661 ******************************
