----- Original Message ----- From: "Torben Schlüntz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian J. Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:42 PM Subject: SV: Mersenne: Drifting UP(!) in Top Producers ranking?
> So now we stick with the 79.3 million limit until somebody finds a 10M > digit prime? Is a price available for a 100M digit prime?... Yes, and a 1G digit prime. > ...And will Gimps > raise the level once more to make this possible to achieve?... I've no doubt it will, in due course. > In that case > it looks like the new candidates are above M332.192.000. Well maybe we > have to live forever or we may believe in P5 with SSE7 :-)... Moore's Law is good for a few years yet. > ...It's kind of > easy to see you are right about the 20M going to 79.3M and it is kind of > easy to see the "desparate" programmer calculating that the letters of > the alphabet X, Y and Z will keep us going into at least M35.999.999 for > the save files. What will happen when Z is used out? I very well know we > have a couple of years to rethink but the day is going to come... There's no need to restrict filenames to 8 characters with modern OSs Regards Daran G. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
