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] www.palosverdes.com/sbcms _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
