>From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Nathan Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Possible V20 issue
>Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:03:06 -0500
>
>Hi,
>
>At 05:46 PM 3/20/00 -0500, Nathan Russell wrote:
>>I have noticed that, when I finish the v20 P-1 of an exponent and send in
>>the result, there is no "sending results" line but only a "sending text
>>message" line. Does this mean I am not getting CPU time credit?
>
>Correct. However, if you do find a factor you will get credit. In fact
>you get credit for trial factoring up to the size of the factor. In the
>long
>run, you will end up with more time credited than you actually invested.
>In the short run, it is like a CPU credit lottery.
>
>Scott does not have the free time to accurately credit P-1 factoring.
>However, it affects every one and is less than a 1.5% impact on your
>totals.
>
>Regards,
>George
>
George,
Thanks for straightening this out for me. The eight hours twice a month of
P-1 factoring will make a very small dent in my standing - certainly much
less than my prior (to this week) practice of turning my machine off at
night (I was not used to leaving the fan on).
Another potential issue that just occured to me:
If someone has an exponent partially done under version 19.x or 18.x and
upgrades and it finds a factor, will they get more credit for the factor
than they lost for the partial LL run? This is something that might be a
significant issue for those who are running P-100's and comperable machines,
where it would be a loss of months rather than weeks. If this has already
been thought through, I still feel that it would be good for the list to be
aware of that fact.
Best regards,
Nathan
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