Mersenne Digest Thursday, December 16 1999 Volume 01 : Number 671 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:23:51 +0000 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Re: mprime 19.1 glibc On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:19:40PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: >I'd like to upgrade mprime, and I see it's linked with glibc 2.1. I have glibc >2.0.7. Will it work? I'm currently running 18.1. There are some quirks at the moment. You could try, but read the docs carefully, and have a backup of your old 18.1 executable. There are sometimes error `2250' crops up -- if you get that, you've got a problem. Also, see the previous traffic on this list, if you have it -- there was a glibc 2.0.7 user describing how he simply made a symlink to fix everything. If you need it, I (or somebody else on this list) could find that post for you. /* Steinar */ - -- Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/ _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:41:54 -0000 From: "Ian L McLoughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Fibonacci series.. Since the list is quiet... Does a Fibonnacci series contain a finite or an infinite number of primes? >From what I understand.. In a gen.F sequence if the first two numbers are divisible by a prime all its numbers are divisible by the same prime, if the first two numbers are co-prime is there a generalised sequence that contains NO PRIMES.... Ian McLoughlin, Chematek U.K. Tel/Fax : +44(0)1904 679906 Mobile : +44(0)7801 823421 Website: www.chematekuk.co.uk _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:13:03 -0500 From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95 Hi all, This is primarily directed at the 4 or 5 users dedicated to factoring exponents above 35 million. Prime95 version 19.1 has a bug that causes it to miss some factors for these large exponents. If you are one of the 4 or 5 affected users, please download version 19.2 to fix the problem. Thanks to Will Edgington for finding the test cases. The bug was discovered because values in the "expected number of Mersenne primes" column on the http://www.mersenne.org/status.htm page kept going up! Regards, George _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:22:21 -0000 From: "Brian J. Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Holiday reading Hi guys, Here's a book you may consider as lightish reading over the holiday period - or even as a last-minute present: "Faster" by James Gleick (who also wrote the excellent introductory book on Chaos Theory). The subtitle is "The Acceleration of Just About Everything" - which obviously includes computers - indeed, the text even has a reference to GIMPS which may be only about six months out of date! This book is not overtly mathematical or technological - it's more about today's high-pressure lifestyle. I reckon my mother would understand it; having read it, she would probably realise how we've got ourselves into this state, but not why we've allowed it to happen! Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________ 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 #671 ******************************
