what aobut the fact that our tests will take longer and longer as the
exponents get larger
Frank
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From: Stefan Struiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: James Escamilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
>TeamM:
>
>I will be more detailed later, once I collect and refine my thoughts, but
at
>this point let me say that I think it is the group attracted to SETI, and
the
>Area 51, uh, "enthusiasts," who need some work, not the MPrime interface.
>
>More to come,
>
>Regards,
>Stefanovic
>
>Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy wrote:
>
>> > The main reason I�ve heard for people liking the Seti project is
>> > because the screen saver looks pretty.
>>
>> I've been thinking about this for about a month now and I really think
it's
>> time for Prime95 to get a facelift. Now, I was thinking just along the
>> lines of having a better GUI. I.E. Have a percentage complete bar
instead
>> of showing that in text. Maybe a log window for those who want it.
Things
>> like that.
>>
>> However, for those who wanted something pretty, we could probably do that
>> without using up a lot of CPU time.
>>
>> At the very least though, IMHO, Prime95 needs a facelift. Comments?
>>
>> G-Man
>>
>> P.S. George - do you use the same codebase for win31 or is Prime95
really
>> meant only for 32 bit operating systems? What compiler do you use?
>>
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