From: Richard Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mersenne: Poaching -- Discouragement thereof
Here's what I've just posted in the GIMPS Forum.
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_IF_ PrimeNet has automatic time limits on assignments, ordinarily
requiring no manual intervention to expire assignments or re-assign
them,
Okay, to start with, GIMPS lost the very first prime we ever found to a
member of another project who beat George to finding the exponent by a
matter of hours. This is simply the way math and other fields of research
work. Darwin's theory of evolution was very nearly duplicated by another
On Friday 24 January 2003 02:27, Richard Woods wrote:
Let's put it this way: Maybe you don't give a fig for fame, but
some of the rest of us do. A chance at real, honest-to-gosh
mathematical fame has a value not measurable in CPU years, but
poaching steals that.
So what we want is a
Since the list is fairly quiet I will ask this now.
If the answer is online somewhere please direct me.
If I need m mod n and m is to big for my mod function, I believe I can add
a mod n to b mod n provided a+b=m.
Is there an easier way? suppose n is to big?
Thank you in advance.
Frank
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:39:40PM -0500, Frank Anzalone wrote:
If I need m mod n and m is to big for my mod function, I believe I can add
a mod n to b mod n provided a+b=m. Is there an easier way? suppose n is to
big?
What do you mean by is too big for your mod function? Usually, in this
--On Friday, January 24, 2003 8:59 PM + Brian J. Beesley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think perhaps what may be needed is a new rule that users who don't
complete assignments in a reasonable period of time (say 1 year?) should
lose the right to the assignment, even if they do check in
I think perhaps what may be needed is a new rule that users who don't
complete assignments in a reasonable period of time (say 1 year?) should
lose the right to the assignment, even if they do check in regularly.
Does this apply to 10M assignments?
As George proposed on the GIMPS forums
But, no, you won't be able to complete a 10M on a P100 ;-)
my slowest machine still on primenet is a p150 that has 60 days to finish
14581247, its been working on it for about 300 days now, 24/7, with nearly
zero downtime. 2.22 seconds per iteration, yikes.
I probably should retire this box
Recently I wrote:
I asked this in the GIMPS forum, but haven't seen any answer
there yet. So will you please point out what I overlooked?
... to which Brian Beesley replied:
Sorry, I don't read the forum. It's inconvenient expensive for
those of us that have pay-as-you-go dialup
So Mr. Beesley and anyone else who hadn't read the Forum, whatever
their
reasons, _didn't yet know that a major Primenet server software change
had already been discussed in the recent past and had practically been
decided-upon_, because none of that Forum discussion had been reported
to the
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