I have only one modern machine, and it runs eight (8) hours a day. Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [Prime] Probably
> Allen Ayers wrote: > > I'm Allen Ayers and have been participating in the Mersenne Prime Program for about 2 years. > > > > What is the probability that I will find a Mersenne Prime? > > insufficient information to answer that. We don't know how many machines you > have running, how fast they are, or anything else. > > A modern PC (say, 3.8Ghz p4) working 24/7 crunches through a current range > candidate in about 2 weeks, so will do about 25/year. This project has the > equivalent of 1000s of these running, and so far as discovered 8 Mersenne Primes. > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
