> The 41st Mersenne prime is 2^24036583-1. Josh Findley from Issaquah, > Washington discovered the prime on May 15, it was verified in record time by > Tony Reix last Wednesday. You can read more details at http://mersenne.org
I'm impressed by the speed of verification; it sounds as if the FFT itself ran in parallel on the Itaniums, which I thought people on this list had repeatedly claimed was impractical. Is it in fact practical but pointless -- you could check a single number in eight days on a dual Opteron, but just running Prime95 on both CPUs would check two numbers in fourteen. Tom _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
