Thanks for the factor.exe citation.
At 01:40 AM 6/16/00 -0700, Jim Howell wrote:
[Wed 14 Jun 2000, Paul Leyland writes]
Today I found this number 3756482676803749223044867243823 with ECM and
B1=10,000. It has two factors, each of 16 digits, which could *not* have
been found by trial division
I was testing 9,028,373 from a worktodo.ini file that said
Test=9028373,63
That is all the worktodo.ini file said. I use manual prime retrieval and
asked for, and got from George, three new numbers as 9,028,373 was my only
number.
The worktodo.ini file was changed to
Test=9028373,63
The consensus, as I read the messages, is that all is O.K.
Soon I will have
Test=9028373,63
Test=999,63
Test=999,63
Test=999,63
and LL factoring will resume on 9028373. I hope this is right as I will be
away for a week starting Tuesday, June 6, 2000.
All in all, there is and has
Cheers to you Mikus. I second you wholeheartedly.
At 11:51 AM 5/24/00 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
... some snipping
Since when has this project become a competitive event ?
This mailing list has gotten several messages like the one above,
which I interpret as comparing
Quoting from Dan: "Logic seems to indicate that pi would have to be a
finite exact value since the area in the circle is finite. So, either the
figure for pi is in error (not likely) or pi has a end."
No, this might be called one of the pathologies of mathematics. What seems
to be so isn't.
A good sensible posting. I concur and thank Jeff Woods for writing it.
At 11:12 AM 2/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
I hate to open a can of worms here, but feel I must However, I am not
a poacher myself, nor do I advocate it. I only write this to tell you why
I don't feel sorry for folks who
I am using WIN 98. How do I set up an icon on the desktop to kick off
PRIME95 (as I needed to do twice today when the dang computer crashed)?
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:56:01PM -0500, Vincent J. Mooney Jr. wrote:
I am using WIN 98. How do I set up an icon on the desktop to kick off
PRIME95 (as I needed to do twice today when the dang computer crashed)?
The right thing would be putting it either in the Startup folder (on the
start
I read a few days ago that the patent office is considering withdrawing the
patent.
It was stupid to grant it in the first place, but what is the effect if
patents granted can be withdrawn (as has happened in a few other cases)?
At 12:52 AM 1/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
" Dickens applied for the
At 03:48 PM 1/12/00 EST, Ernst wrote:
Jud McCranie wrote:
This is getting off topic, but:
The criteria for something to be patentable is that the average
practitioner in the field wouldn't think of it. So it boils down to
whether the average programmer would think of windowing, given the
Also since the list is quite quiet, my old zip code of 21701 is a Mersenne
prime.
Are there any other zip codes that are Mersenne primes?
I don't know how to look up 02203 or 02281 for example.
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25. 21701 A valid zip code
26. 23209Not good
27. 44497Not good
28. 86243Not good
29 and higher are 6 digits.
At 06:13 PM 12/17/99 -0800, Joth Tupper wrote:
You might check www.usps.com.
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From: Vincent J. Mooney Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
someone else's
patent?
At 10:11 PM 11/28/99 -0500, Jud McCranie wrote:
At 07:31 PM 11/28/99 -0500, Vincent J. Mooney Jr. wrote:
Pleasse tell us what there is to disagree with.
This is off-topic, but there was prior work on the Mark I, in Germany by
Zuse, and in England on the code breaking
At 06:32 PM 11/28/99 -0500, Jud McCranie wrote:
At 01:57 AM 11/25/99 -0500, Vincent J. Mooney Jr. wrote:
There seems to some interest in the first computer. I refer you to the book
"The First Electronic Computer : The Atanasoff Story" by Alice R. Burks,
Arthur W. Burks still
5 is an odd prime. 2^5 = 32 and minus one, is 31. 31 is not divisible by 3.
At 07:50 PM 10/26/99 +0200, you wrote:
Hello all,
a simple Number Theory question. Is always
(2^p-1) / p ,odd prime p, divisible by 3 ?
Then 2^p == 1 (mod 3p) would also hold, can this be used to improve the
I have 256 MB of memory (about 30 gig of hard drive space).
Will this process assist me?
At 07:23 PM 10/25/99 +0100, you wrote:
On 24 Oct 99, at 18:23, Bruce A Metcalf wrote:
Hello, I must have missed the discussion of ReCache the last time around.
Would someone be willing to explain where
When this is cleared up, it will make a good FAQ.
Who maintains the FAQ list? Do you agree the answer here is a good FAQ?
At 01:10 PM 10/2/99 -0700, you wrote:
Hi, I need some help.
I would like to look for a factor of a mersenne prime in a specific area.
For example, for a mersenne exponent
Neat Idea !!
At 08:22 PM 9/28/99 -0700, you wrote:
Instead of a boring status bar, how about a graphic of a
caterpillar gnawing away on a leaf? It starts out as a full
leaf and disappears as the little beastie devours his sustenance.
Have an outline of the original leaf for size comparison.
Get the Western Digital 18.5 Gig hard drives at 7200 RPM for under $ 300
each. My system has two. Now I have to fill 30 + Gig of hard drive space.
At 07:15 PM 8/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
preallocates 16MB memory, even if it doesn't use it all. This will cause
the program to fail badly if the
I may be a little obtuse here (and spelling, expression of ideas may be
inadequate) but
A Mersenne number's prime divisors are unique to that number. Letting a and
b be primes, 2^a - 1 and 2^b - 1 have completely different factors. So we
can make a table (database) with
p1 divides M(q1)
p2
Try this:
Nelson H. F. Beebe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Center for Scientific Computing
University of Utah
Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC
155 S 1400 E RM 233
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
USA
Publication began with volume 1, number 1, in January 1977, when
Yes. The Romans used the word "fasces" to decribe a bundle of sticks bound
together to hold an axe at one end (a picture would be worth a lot but I
don't have one). The cord was wrapped around the bundle. The axe was used
in war as well as construction. Benito Mussolini and the Italians knew
What is up with http://project.vobis.de/gimps/
I just get
faliled to open configuration file: "/usr/local/Counter/conf/count.cfg"
(where faliled is failed, I presume)
I posted the original book review because someone was discussing Galois
transforms on the list. I simply though that those people might like to
know of the book.
At 09:35 PM 12/27/98 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the London Times of December 17, 1998
THE FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN
(I qm assuming this is not too far off topic.)
From the London Times of December 17, 1998
THE FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN
By Tom Petsinis
Penguin, £7.99 (Fiction)
ISBN 0 140 26472 8
Evariste Galois is the mathematicians' pin-up: he
Excellent work. I am curious - who do you contact for the $1,500 prize?
One banner did not get through -- they are not numbers so I cany point to
it. There are two GIMPS/Primenet. Ffor the glory of mathematics and one
GIMPS/Primenet. Join 7000+ fellow computer users belows bd
At 01:16 AM
To the exact cent? I guess you have not heard the news that the Euro dollar
is causing. The calculations must be correct to the 10th of a mil for the
conversion factors. Thus one needs E,EEE,EEE,EEE,EEE.c (yes, 5 decimals
to round up.) It is known in Europe as maybe worse than the Y2K
excess CPU cycles.
Did you have permission?
If not:
Did you act in good faith?
Should we throw out your results?
Should we not credit you for your work?
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