Hello all, At 11:20 AM 10/12/2001 -0400, Thern, Royal E wrote: >I recently received an exponent, ostensibly for first-time LL testing, that >seemed rather low (in the 11,000,000's). I looked at cleared.txt, and this >had indeed been already done. Is something going on?
Yes. Last week I made available hundreds of exponents that had previously been tested. These LL tests had errors detected during the first run. History has shown that in roughly half of these cases, the final LL test result is incorrect (prime95's error checking cannot catch all errors). My goal is to get at least one clean run on each exponent as we march higher. At worst we get an early double-check, at best we find a new Mersenne prime without waiting 2 years for double-checking to get this high. Have fun, George _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
