No you wouldn't because they would like yourself go to do only
factoring work, and as George said to me when I propose this a year ago:
It would make the focus of GIMPS towards factoring and not like it is
now on primenumber finding.
We will (again in "George-words") have to eliminate candidates
by using a small amount of time in the factoring field; but only so
much/less that we still have power to run LL-tests to really prove
primes.
Regards and happy hunting
tsc
A particularly sore point. If we maintained a top "savers" list
whereby for
every factor found you were credited with the time an LL test
would have
taken, then I and the other "Lone Mersenne Hunters" would
pulverise these
big university teams.
150,000 factors in the 60-69m range, at an average of 27.2 P-90
years each
- hmmmm just over 4,000,000 years saved....
regards
Gordon
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