> 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.
Oh, absolutely. Makes perfect sense :) I sent George an e-mail about this
several days ago but I've been busy and didn't get his reply until recently
and by then - well, it was too late ;)
>
> I do some factoring myself, but I personally prefer the
> first-time testing,
> just because I find it more exciting.
EXACTLY the point I'm trying to make! See, for me, doing an LL test is like
watching paint dry. I did ONE LL test back in 97 and haven't done another
since :) And before someone says something - yes, there is an exponent that
is assigned to me in the high 33 million range. That's there because I was
trying to do the P1 Factoring which I *STILL* haven't figured out how to get
it to do.
George, with the P1 factoring, does Prime95 only do it if you are doing LL
tests or can this also be done if you are doing a factoring assignment?
G-Man
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