>From: Marc Getty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Mersenne: The Recent Popularity of Factoring
>Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:33:05 -0500
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>While I do no use the undocumented FactorOverride feature, I do have 300+
>factoring assignments assigned to my TempleU-DI account. All of these
>machines
>are 400 MHz Dell OptiPlex GX1's with the low profile cases from hell. This
>terrible design forces me to factor due to the fact that LL tests make the
>video
>flicker terribly. Please do no be annoyed at those of us "with large
>numbers of
>fast machines" doing factoring work, the only other alternative is a pretty
>screen saver.
>
>-Marc
Certainly factoring is better than nothing, and it can be argued that, since
there is an unlimited number of prime exponents available, there is an
unlimited amount of factoring work for GIMPS to do. It is wonderful that
colleges and businesses are getting into GIMPS, and there are certainly
situations in which there is a need to do a certain type of work. This is
one, and machines with limited memory may be another. The bone I have to
pick is really with the (now hypothetical) person who was, according to the
info I had at the time, factoring thousands of exponents without a good
reason.
Trying to sound sane,
Nathan Russell
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