Re: Mersenne: Where's the script?

2000-05-17 Thread Eric Hahn
Mark wrote: >A while ago we were discussing about a Java / JavaScript thing >to put on the Mersenne page. I'm wondering if it's up yet, and >if so, where it is. Yes, it is up. George modified a javascript module I wrote and put it into the benchmark page at the following address: http://www.mer

Re: Mersenne: Where's the script?

2000-05-17 Thread Levi Broderick
> I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how many digit's a certain exponent has. Assuming the exponents are in the form 2^x, we can use logs. (Everybody remember the log song from the Ren & Stimpy show?) The exponent 2^x must be converted to 10^y, and y will be the number of digits in the decimal

RE: Mersenne: time needed for factoring

2000-05-17 Thread Eric Hahn
Aaron Blosser wrote: >>Henk Stokhorst wrote: >>>L.S., >>> >>>Just curious, what makes factoring 13.388.659 take four times as >>>long as 13.375.793? >> >>It's because 13,388,659 is past the cutoff of 13,380,000 where >>Prime95 starts factoring to the depth of 2^65 instead of 2^64. >>Normally, incr

Mersenne: Where's the script?

2000-05-17 Thread Mrkshyper
A while ago we were discussing about a Java / JavaScript thing to put on the Mersenne page. I'm wondering if it's up yet, and if so, where it is. Also, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how many digit's a certain exponent has. Thanks! Mark _

Mersenne: OT But Of Interest: [Info-IA64] Latest Update]

2000-05-17 Thread Stefan Struiker
In case you haven't already heard On Monday 5/15, SGI released their IA-64 Linux compiler to the open source community. In addition, today, Red Hat released their first IA-64 Linux distribution to developers. Go to http://www.ia64linux.org to get the links to these releases! - The IA-6

RE: Mersenne: time needed for factoring

2000-05-17 Thread Aaron Blosser
>Henk Stokhorst wrote: >>L.S., >> >>Just curious, what makes factoring 13.388.659 take four times as >>long as 13.375.793? > >It's because 13,388,659 is past the cutoff of 13,380,000 where >Prime95 starts factoring to the depth of 2^65 instead of 2^64. >Normally, increasing the depth by a factor o

Mersenne: Primenet Error 2250

2000-05-17 Thread Peter Owen
Is there a problem with the PrimeNet Server? I keep getting the following message when prime95 tries to contact the server. Contacting PrimeNet Server. ERROR 2250: Server unavailable The FAQ at http://www.entropia.com/ips/faq.html may have more information. The FAQ says that this is caused by

Re: Mersenne: error

2000-05-17 Thread Bruce A Metcalf
At 09:57 AM 5/17/00 +0200, Benny.VanHoudt wrote: >I've been using prime95 since sept. 1998 and never had any problems. >Until yesterday I was testing an exponent in the 9.5 - 10 million >range, but suddenly an error appeared while contacting the Primenet >server (the exponent was almost finished

Re: Mersenne: time needed for factoring

2000-05-17 Thread Eric Hahn
Henk Stokhorst wrote: >L.S., > >Just curious, what makes factoring 13.388.659 take four times as >long as 13.375.793? It's because 13,388,659 is past the cutoff of 13,380,000 where Prime95 starts factoring to the depth of 2^65 instead of 2^64. Normally, increasing the depth by a factor of one onl

Re: Mersenne: time needed for factoring

2000-05-17 Thread Nathan Russell
>From: Henk Stokhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Mersenne: time needed for factoring >Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:47:38 +0200 > >L.S., > >Just curious, what makes factoring 13.388.659 take four times as long as >13.375.793? > >YotN, > >Henk Stokhorst Hmm... Maybe this

Mersenne: time needed for factoring

2000-05-17 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., Just curious, what makes factoring 13.388.659 take four times as long as 13.375.793? YotN, Henk Stokhorst _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lr

Mersenne: Prime95 and boot

2000-05-17 Thread Didier . Boivin
At 02:32 PM 5/10/00 +0200, Yann Forget wrote: >The new version of Prime95 pop up >every time Windows is restarted. >So the users of my network don't >like it any more. :-( >Is that could be changed ? I have the same behavior with version 19.1. It seems that it appears when prime95 is set to run a

Re: Mersenne: error

2000-05-17 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 17 May 00, at 11:30, Benny.VanHoudt wrote: > > That's what I did and the previous problem disappeared. The > result is that prime95 is working again but was unable to > use the files with the intermediate results. As a result it's > starting all over again. It took my PC more than two months >

Re: Mersenne: error

2000-05-17 Thread Benny.VanHoudt
> On 17 May 00, at 9:57, Benny.VanHoudt wrote: > > > I've been using prime95 since sept. 1998 and never had any problems. > > Until yesterday I was testing an exponent in the 9.5 - 10 million > > range, but suddenly an error appeared while contacting the Primenet > > server (the exponent was almo

Mersenne Digest V1 #736

2000-05-17 Thread Mersenne Digest
Mersenne DigestWednesday, May 17 2000Volume 01 : Number 736 -- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 23:49:56 -0700 From: Paul Leyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Mersenne: To crazy to be true, but it is > From: P

Mersenne: error

2000-05-17 Thread Benny.VanHoudt
Hi, I've been using prime95 since sept. 1998 and never had any problems. Until yesterday I was testing an exponent in the 9.5 - 10 million range, but suddenly an error appeared while contacting the Primenet server (the exponent was almost finished +98%). I got the commen windows 95 error messag