----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 8:29 AM Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #912
> At 07:57 PM 12/2/2001 +0000, Gordon Spence wrote: > >A particularly sore point. If we maintained a top "savers" list whereby > >for every factor found you were credited with the time an LL test would > >have taken, then I and the other "Lone Mersenne Hunters" would pulverise > >these big university teams. > > Should George get credit for eliminating all those composite exponents when > he made his initial list in the mid-1990's? > > He probably found over a dozen times as many composites in (at a guess) > under two minutes than we'll EVER find, at least until the project is > extended past 80M. Don't forget all the integers that were eliminated because they weren't Mersenne numbers, the non-integral rationals, the uncountable infinity of non-rational real numbers, complex numbers, quaternians... The rest of our efforts have been trivial in comparison. :-) > Nathan Daran G. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
