Re: Mersenne: Re: SF Bay GIMPS party (was Mersenne #39)

2001-11-21 Thread Todd Sauke
GIMPSers, I'm up for joining a get-together in the San Jose/Mountain View area depending on specific timing. Wasn't there a previous at the Tied House in Mountain View? That would be great for me. Todd Sauke (Faithful list reader and one-machine cruncher, but infrequent poster.) Spike

Re: Mersenne: Re: look before you leap

2000-05-03 Thread Todd Sauke
ange earth's moment of inertia, and thus the length of a day, may make all of the above irrelevant before the year 10500 anyway. . . Cheers, Todd Sauke Ernst wrote: Steinar Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, to complete the mess (I saw your message saying `ignore this', but I want to

RE: Mersenne: The $100,000 award for 10,000,000 digit prime

1999-07-19 Thread Todd Sauke
Alex, The group you seek always has 2^n elements. All bit combinations are possible. (P = 2^p-1 is "minus one" in n-bit words. 2*P is minus two, etc. up to 2^n*P which is 0. All bit patterns occur.) Todd Sauke Now, I'm going to toss out an idea. I thought about this a few min

Re: Development of Fermat's Method (was: RE: Mersenne: Hyperbola)

1999-07-14 Thread Todd Sauke
~ 10^88. 10^30 chances at hitting a number ~10^88 to within 10^-6 leaves you several dozen orders of magnitude short of a guarantee. Best regards, Todd Sauke Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: re: Mersenne prime exponent binary

1999-07-13 Thread Todd Sauke
s us to bypass all of the heuristic arguments about logarithmic scaling of human selected units for expressing quantities, and to directly DERIVE the law for Mersennes, as opposed to heuristically generating it for the other cases. Todd Sauke Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: Any statistics majors out there?

1999-05-07 Thread Todd Sauke
You might look at the integral of the error histograms you get to see if they deviate subtly from the error function. I was unable to load the raw data you referenced; I'm using the OLD Excel 4.0. If you want to send me some raw data readable by Excel 4.0 I would be happy to look at it and look for h

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersennes for Martians

1999-03-01 Thread Todd Sauke
, unfortunately a lot trickier than sending a list of numbers. Todd Sauke Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: Link from Knuth's Home Page

1999-02-16 Thread Todd Sauke
capitate than a glomerule" . . . Okaa Todd Sauke Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm