Gee I wish I could have all of the time back that I spent on "bad"
Microsoft software too.
;>
Alan
From: Paul Leyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Eric Hahn'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Woltman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95
Date sent: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:33:03 -0800
> Aargh!!
>
> I've spent *weeks* trial factoring some of those, time which could have been
> better spent in ECMNET.
>
> Unhappy.
>
>
> Ah well, it's going to have to wait. I've got other things to do. In the
> meantime, I'll just stop the programs.
>
>
> Paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Hahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 20 December 1999 17:52
> > To: George Woltman
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95
> >
> >
> > George Woltman wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > One ugly fact about this too... exponents already tested above
> > 35.79M may need to be re-tested!
> >
> > Within 10 seconds of starting v19.2, two new small factors
> > were found for exponents already tested and found to have
> > factors (just not that small)... Six new smaller factors were
> > found testing just 24 exponents previously tested that had
> > factors. And for exponents that have had no factors found
> > yet, there might be a smaller one that wasn't discovered :(
> >
> > Eric Hahn
> >
> >
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