Quoting John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> how many people have pentium/athlon CPUs?
> 
> what percentage of those people have X1900's ? (noting that these are 
> $400 video cards, bought almost exclusively by the 'extreme gamer' crowd 
> who are willing to spend twice the money for tiny increments of game 
> performance)

How many of those graphics cards implement double-precision floating point?

While it's possible to implement a LL test using only 32-bit integers,
unless those graphics cards can do wide integer multiplies that scheme
would also be impossible to port as well.

Using graphics cards for finding primes is a long-standing FAQ, and the
answer is always no, but as time goes on there are fewer and fewer 
reasons it's impossible.

jasonp

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