Hi,
I was running a double check (assigned by Entropia) and found a factor,
this is the second time that this has happened. I was just wondering about
a few things
1. How often does this happen?
2. Does the original tester still "lose" the LL-credit they originally
received. If they do then this doesn't seem fair to me, after all when they
did the LL-test we didn't have the capability to find that factor.
3. Is it worth going back and performing a P-1 test on all Mersenne
candidates with no known factor
4. Or is it better just to factor them deeper towards 2^72
Just out of interest I ran P-1 testing on another couple of numbers but no
factor turned up. It only took about 3 hours for each test though...
[Thu Jun 22 15:19:41 2000]
UID: nitro/liberator, M3200543 completed P-1, B1=40000, B2=600000, WW1:
52E3BFCC
[Thu Jun 22 19:00:18 2000]
UID: nitro/liberator, M4056419 completed P-1, B1=45000, B2=652500, WW1:
691E386D
regards
G
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