RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

[Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy]

> Just so we know, how long would it take a 1.5 Ghz Athlon to factor 100
> assignments through 64 bits?  In view of Moore's Law, that's
> about what we
> should figure on.

Well, my PII 500mhz can factor 1 number per day to 64 bits.  So, it could
probably do 100 in 30 days or so...

G-Man

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