This would presumably give rise to a serious problem in which people could simply claim to have done work which failed, and turn up at the server and ask for credit to their user scores.
There wouldn't be a reliable way (based on current mechanisms) to cross-check the validity of their claim if the results are incorrect and can't be verified by another user. Jeff Woods wrote: > And if the answer to the above is "yes", then why can't Prime95 be coded > to simply "credit" partial time, and throw the number back in favor of a > smaller exponent, a double-check, or factoring work, instead of > permitting work to continue for another few weeks (or months) that is > likely fruitless? Yours, -- ======= Gareth Randall ======= _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
