Yup. Woops. My apologies to all about reserving so many exponents.
G-Man
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Woltman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 4:56 PM
> To: David Campeau; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Scott Kurowski;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring
>
>
> Hi,
>
> At 02:35 AM 3/25/00 -0500, David Campeau wrote:
> >I was looking at the PrimeNet's World Test Status and in the
> recent couple
> >of days, the factoring assignment went from ~10000 to ~13000.
> >
> > GeoffreyF ELBuild1 680
> > GeoffreyF PDuck 2422
>
> GeoffreyF tried the FactorOverride undocumented feature on these two
> machines. This feature promptly reserved a few thousand exponents
> and never returned them to the server.
>
> The undoc.txt file was not clear that this feature must not be used
> with the primenet server. It is meant for those few individuals that are
> factoring exponents above 20 million. I have upgraded the undoc.txt
> file to make this clear.
>
> Scott and Brad at entropia.com - can you unreserve the 3000 exponents
> that are assigned to these two machines?
>
> Regards,
> George
>
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