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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:17:02 -0500, George Woltman wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> As promised, the server now has about 1000 small exponents
>to give out for triple-checks.
Out of curiousity, am I the only one who, while running triple-checks
by arrangement with George, kept getting errors about exponents
having been already tested?
On one occasion, I had to restore my worktodo file from a backup CD.
> Also, the server has about 1000 new exponents between 7 million and
>12 million to assign for first-time tests. These exponents were
>tested once but had at least one ROUNDOFF > 0.4 or SUM(INPUTS) !=
>SUM(OUTPUTS)
>error. These LL tests have at best a 50% chance of being correct.
>Rather than wait for double-checking to reach these lofty levels, I
>think it best to reassign them for first-time tests.
Agreed.
In case anyone's curious, I did a little back-of-the-envelope math,
and there is actually a greater chance - roughly 1 1/2 times - of
someone finding a prime by re-testing such an exponent in the 7M
range rather than running a first-time test of the size now being
assigned.
Nathan
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