-----Original Message-----
From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 2001 07:59
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: 26 exponents
>That _might_ be a good idea, except in the eventual situation where both
>participants return results indicating their number is indeed prime. Whoever
>had the slightly slower machine will not be very happy!
That gets my vote for understatement-of-the-year. :-)
BTW what happens now when a first-time check, (or for that matter, if a
double-check) discovers a new prime. Surely this is checked immediately on
the fastest machine available to the project, and not left to the vagaries of
random allocation?
>Steve Harris
Daran G.
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