Mersenne: Re: Trial Factoring: Back to the math.

2002-02-12 Thread EWMAYER
Bruce Leenstra wrote: What this list needs right now is a nice juicy math debate, so here goes: I was reading the faq about P-1 factoring, and it talks about constructing a 'q' that is the product of all primes less than B1 (with some multiples?) ... Right now Prime95 constructs a list of

Mersenne: Missing assignement

2002-02-12 Thread Ignacio Larrosa Caestro
In my personal account report of yesterday could be read: *** Individual Account Report 11 Feb 2002 21:57 (Feb 11 2002 2:57PM Pacific) --- Exponents Assigned --- Assignment overdue check-in is set at 60.0 days (0.0 days to expire) prime fact current

RE: Mersenne: Missing assignement

2002-02-12 Thread Aaron Blosser
Looks like someone finished it: 14421269 66 0x6E664B5F86CB66__12-Feb-02 08:04 Team_Prime_Rib DSheets_50 PS - I'm just thrilled because I found a factor of an exponent that beat my previous record... 101 bit factor. I'm too lazy to look through the cleared exponents list,

Re: Mersenne: Missing assignement

2002-02-12 Thread Achim Passauer
Well, someone did help you. The cleared exponents report contains the following line: 14421269 66 0x6E664B5F86CB66__12-Feb-02 08:04 Team_Prime_Rib DSheets_50 Regards Achim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Ignacio Larrosa Cañestro [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL

RE: Mersenne: Missing assignement

2002-02-12 Thread Aaron Blosser
Answering my own question: (guess I wasn't so lazy after all) 14517229 103 F 9924470843259440116293839391239 10-Jan-02 15:35 00dbm Bertrand -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mersenne-invalid- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aaron Blosser Sent: Tuesday,

Mersenne: Re: Trial Factoring: Back to the math.

2002-02-12 Thread Bruce Leenstra
Bruce Leenstra wrote: What this list needs right now is a nice juicy math debate, so here goes: I was reading the faq about P-1 factoring, and it talks about constructing a 'q' that is the product of all primes less than B1 (with some multiples?) ... Right now Prime95 constructs a list of

Re: Mersenne: Missing assignement

2002-02-12 Thread Achim Passauer
And for all other readers all(?) factors with more than 99 bits which are part of the latest cleared exponents report: 12523547 101 F 3476706399795678069475753699633 12-Feb-02 12:30 madpoo MainBoy 12736037 102 F 6150891764095478416426904114537 14-Jan-02 23:03 krypt fmpc494 13459613 102

Mersenne: Factoring top 10

2002-02-12 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 11:41 AM 2/12/2002 -0800, Aaron Blosser wrote: PS - I'm just thrilled because I found a factor of an exponent that beat my previous record... 101 bit factor. I'm too lazy to look through the cleared exponents list, so does anyone know what the largest factor is that has been found by

Mersenne: Factoring bits

2002-02-12 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 09:18 PM 2/12/2002 +0100, Achim Passauer wrote: And for all other readers all(?) factors with more than 99 bits which are part of the latest cleared exponents report: 14308961 103 F 9394020965332917865679071542783 There are two minor shortcoming in the prime95 to primenet protocol.

Mersenne: RE: Factoring top 10

2002-02-12 Thread Aaron Blosser
Okay, those are HUGE factors. Have the predictions on the work eliminated by P-1 factoring been pretty much confirmed by the # of large factors found? In other words, is the extra processing time paying off? I'd hazard a guess that the time saving is indeed appreciable, but I wonder if anyone

Mersenne: Preventing hacks

2002-02-12 Thread Aaron Blosser
Well, After long and hard thought on this (approximately 30 seconds), I have the following suggestion: Each team account (could apply to accounts with just one machine as well) should have 2 passwords. A master password that could be used on the web pages to manage exponents on all team

Re: Mersenne: RE: Factoring top 10

2002-02-12 Thread bjb
On 12 Feb 2002, at 12:41, Aaron Blosser wrote: Have the predictions on the work eliminated by P-1 factoring been pretty much confirmed by the # of large factors found? In other words, is the extra processing time paying off? I'd hazard a guess that the time saving is indeed appreciable,

Re: Mersenne: Preventing hacks

2002-02-12 Thread bjb
On 12 Feb 2002, at 13:21, Aaron Blosser wrote: After long and hard thought on this (approximately 30 seconds), I have the following suggestion: Each team account (could apply to accounts with just one machine as well) should have 2 passwords. A master password that could be used on the

Mersenne: Are problems more likely in the last 1% of a 10 gigadigit LL?

2002-02-12 Thread Gerry Snyder
HELP! Until this evening I was expecting to see my first result from a LL test on a 10,000,000-digit Mersenne number tomorrow morning. When I got home from dinner tonight I was seeing a bunch of suminputs != sumoutputs, and after rebooting, the errors switched to round off [4] 0.40 Was I just