Are we going to polish our stats a bit for a possible upcoming press-release regarding the 41st Mersenne prime? It might look better if we could report some additional mile-stones, like "all exponents below 15,300,000 have been tested at least once" or "Countdown to testing all exponents below M(13466917) once: 7". We would need only a few more work to reach these mile-stones and most likely those exponents have been assigned to people here. But if they are calculated on very slow PCs it might take to long to be finished before the PR is send out. So maybe we should assign those exponents additionally to people with much faster PCs to get those exponents done in time. It would be nice to have those miles-stones reached as they alone wouldn't be noticed by the press, but together with a new Mersenne it would add flesh to the story.
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