Re: Mersenne: Alot of small exponents for double checking will be reassigned tonight and the following days

1999-10-24 Thread Floris Looyesteyn
thought about this but with the thousands of clients, wouldn't the chance of getting one of these be 0? Can anyone tell how many exponents are handed out each minute/second? Floris Looyesteyn __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http

Mersenne: FDIV Pentium error

1999-09-21 Thread Floris Looyesteyn
I was wondering if Prime95 is affected by the Pentium FDIV bug. (or some name like that). I ask this because now i'm also using it on my laptop (great work george!) and when i installed linux some time ago it said the processor had this bug. Floris Looyesteyn

Re: Mersenne: Really really crazy idea...

1999-04-12 Thread Floris Looyesteyn
at accurate floating point calculations because they aren't used much in games. something else: I still believe we should make a mersenne virus which will let all infected computer calculate mersenne primes. unfortunately this would give a real bad name to GIMPS. but lets hear your thought on this Floris

Re: Mersenne: all these primes...

1999-02-21 Thread Floris Looyesteyn
i thought of a good reason to have enormous prime numbers: we would use them to impress extraterrestrial intelligences, should That is indeed a great idea! they may call them something else, such as freemblookum primes, actually they call them du=fjxxqr'eowcs-ss, although I never heard them