----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:53 PM Subject: Mersenne: New exponents
> Hi from Ireland - I have a few questions about how M39 will affect the > allocation of current/new exponents. Once the result has been announced I > suppose we will recommence searching above M39? No. We are looking for /all/ Mersenne primes, not just one larger than the biggest one we know. We don't know whether M#39 really is M39 or not, and the only way to find out is to test all smaller prime exponants. > I got a couple of new > exponents over the weekend - I assume that they are not necessarily > M39 in > order to maintain "secrecy". If so then, after the announcement, should we > dump our existing tests or finish off factoring things that are half > finished? Please finish them. > Does prime95 handle this scenario automatically - i.e. will new > exponents be automatically sent if a manual update is done? > > Thanks, > > Keith Daran G. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
