Brian J. Beesley wrote: > Sure. So would eliminating the report altogether.
1) Exaggeration is unnecessary. My proposal was not that extreme. :) 2) After much discussion on the GIMPS forum, I've withdrawn my current proposal (which had been extended from the initial one I sent to this mailing list) because I have a better idea that needs mulling-over before publication. > I detect righteous indignation here. So? Poaching is an official GIMPS No-No, in case you've forgotten. > Might I respectfully point out that, if you stick to "LL test" > assignments, it makes practically no difference whether you get > "poached", since there will eventually have to be a double-check > anyway. Even though I've explained at least one other significance difference, some folks just don ... Let's put it this way: Maybe you don't give a fig for fame, but some of the rest of us do. A chance at real, honest-to-gosh mathematical fame has a value not measurable in CPU years, but poaching steals that. I don't have the hardware to climb the Top Producers list, and I don't have the financial resources to acquire much, but GIMPS was intended to give even a humble system the right to reserve Mnumbers to L-L test. Poachers steal that. I've loved mathematics ever since I learned what numbers were. I was locally considered something of a math "whiz kid". My first college major was mathematics. If fate hadn't intervened, I could have been a math professor now. I'll trade you 50,000 CPU-years and the $100,000 prize in exchange for being the honest-to-gosh, no-cheating-involved discoverer of a new Mersenne prime. Have you no soul? > I might also point out that there is sufficient information in the > other reports (particularly the hrf3 & lucas_v database files) to > enable the poachers to be identified, Better read my proposal again. Its intent was to _PREVENT_ (not perfectly, but to some extent) poaching, not identify it after-the-fact. BTW, exactly which data fields in either the HRF3.TXT or LUCAS_V.TXT file provide information about currently-assigned, in-progress, incomplete assignments (which are the poachable ones)? I asked this in the GIMPS forum, but haven't seen any answer there yet. So will you please point out what I overlooked? Richard Woods _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
