Jussi Heino has kindly pointed an error in my recent communication.

Thank you for waking me up, Jussi. I make that mistake all the time.

Of course I have 3 GHz, not 3 MHz, although I can get pretty close to 
that on my old Keuffel & Esser slide rule.  And the memory is 512 MB. 
The program is Prime95, version 23.8.1.

The challenge to lindley still stands.

Bob Margulies wrote:
> roger lindley claims to have something original, but seems to be reluctant to 
> divulge details. OK, so be it. Instead of endlessly arguing with him, let's 
> invite him to put up or shut up.
>
> So, roger, here's a challenge: Using the Lucas-Lehmer algorithm, I'm doing an 
> investigation of the primality of 2^p - 1, where p = 31798511. Expected 
> running time on my 3 MHz machine is somewhat over a month.
>
> Turn your Fortran program loose on the same problem, roger, and let us know 
> your total running time and memory requirement.
>
>   

-- 
Bob Margulies    [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

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