I am posting this message to both this list and the LoneMersenneHunters group on Yahoo...
As of this date... I have told by 6 people... that they would like to do work in this range... (that I had previously stated I was testing)... and have started doing work... some of which is being duplicated... :-( If you would REALLY like to work in this range... if only hoping to discover what MIGHT be a mersenne prime... please contact me... and let me know what you are doing... (and any results)... so that work is NOT being duplicated unnecessarily... Even on a Athlon running at 1333MHz... it takes a full week to trial-factor to 2^69... if no factor is found... several days for P-1... and at least 8 mos. to LL-Test... I DO NOT have any problems with people wanting to do work in this range... but please note... there is NO GUARANTEE that a mersenne prime exists in this range... and I assume NO LIABILITY if there is NOT!!! But please... let's work together... and cooperate... and NOT DUPLICATE WORK!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Eric _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
