Hallo Mary! Ups, I don't suspect you. Maybe the method should be more like: Look at the cleared exponent report to find accounts only or overwhelming returning 66-bits factors. But this might still unwantedly "catch" you as those factors you find will be in this area. Then one will have to do some TF double checking work of the factors given to the account (can be seen at the assigned tests report). And then again you have to be sure the account also finished it's work on that TF. So as I said it is to complex, to time consuming and not exactly a job for me, as I won't be the GIMPS police. And I very well understand your view TF's starting from eg. 64 bits also have to be done some day. br tsc
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Mary K. Conner Sendt: ti 26-11-2002 00:10 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Emne: Re: SV: SV: SV: Mersenne: Drifting UP(!) in Top Producers ranking? At 11:04 PM 11/25/02 +0100, =?utf-8?Q?Torben_Schl=C3=BCntz?= wrote: > No, and I am not the GIMPS police. It would offcourse be quite >easy simply to check all accounts having done 5+ years TF and having >more than 0,6 years pr. foundfactor. On the other hand some accounts >could be very old and back in those days a factor could have been found >in less effort than now a days appr. 0,5 y/ff. NetForce and Challenge >seems to be good candidates for accounts with a very low effort pr. ff. Well, you'd nail me. I do expired exponents for the most part, which makes it much less likely that I will find a factor because almost all of those expired exponents have already been done part way, and if there had been a factor in the parts already done, they wouldn't have expired. So I have 8.783 P90 years in factoring, and only 6 factors found. Unless you count the pre-factoring work I turn in manually to George. Lots of factors found there for much less CPU expended. ________________________________________________________________________ _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers