I second this suggestion. I would be very interested in seeing a calculator page, or at least a detailed formula. I neglected to keep track of the individual credit for my earliest numbers, and now I am curious. These go back to v. 15, I believe.
--Bob Braunwart >Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:36:14 -0400 >From: "Digital Concepts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Mersenne: What are the PrimeNet formulas for calculating LL and >Factoring credit? > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >- ------=_NextPart_000_02A6_01C14DC4.3B0A3CE0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >First a short memory recollection... A few months back I wrote in = >explaining that I wanted to compare contributions (work done in CPU = >years) between clients running under a team umbrella. I was privately = >replied to and referred to the benchmark page as the way they would do = >it. More recently, someone asked the same thing and I believe George = >referred them to the status page. I've done it both ways and they come = >out very close, but I assume the status page is the one that is going to = >be kept current as new releases and timings come along, and the one = >George uses. > >Either time though, it was mentioned how difficult it was to calculate = >factoring years, and I see why. Yet there must be a formula. Who here = >is a PrimeNet rep? > >With this info, maybe someone might volunteer a calculator page, where = >someone could enter an exponent and get the LL value, and optionally = >whatever criteria is stored in factoring messages to PrimeNet, to = >determine the Factoring value. > >Thanks for you consideration, >Carleton Garrison LL#164 F#291 G#253 www.teamprimerib.com > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
