RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

[Nathan Russell]

I appologize for the misunderstanding.  The reason I was upset was not 
because you used ten machines to do factoring.  Even two hundred machines 
doing factoring would not have changed the overall balance of GIMPS much.  
At the time of my message, I thought that you had deliberately gotten 
some-odd thousand exponents.  I hope you can understand why that concerned 
me.

I do some factoring myself, but I personally prefer the first-time testing, 
just because I find it more exciting.

Nathan

>Well, I can understand the part about not getting exponents that are lower
>numbers and as it's been said, it's because I used the FactorOverride
>feature which caused this "problem".  But if people are annoyed that I'm
>choosing to factor, well, I apologize, but they'll have to get over it.  No
>offense intended but as I said, that's what is great about GIMPS.  We all
>get to choose what we want to work on.
>
>G-Man
>

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