> I've found a few composite factors whilst running P-1 on > small exponents.
Working on M(32340) with P-1 turned out factors with several hundred digits, even when the B1 limit was set very low. This experiment turned up a bug in Prime95 which George has now fixed. The numbers were so large that their decimal representation overflowed an internal buffer. The same bug was triggered by P(32340) but not quite so vigorously. A special case, certainly, but one which occurred in real life and as part of a serious computation to help prove primality. Paul _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
