RE: Mersenne: V20.1.1 P-1 Factoring

2000-03-25 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 11:14 AM 3/25/00 +0100, Hoogendoorn, Sander wrote: Prime95 started to do the P-1 factoring after i upgraded, and before i changed the available nighttime memory to 32MB. Does this mean that the bound for stage 2 is determined on the available memory when stage 1 is started, The stage 2

Mersenne: V20.1.1 P-1 Factoring

2000-03-24 Thread Hoogendoorn, Sander
The folowing exponents where factored by P-1, but why are the bounds so different? The first had a chance of 1.77% and the other two about 3.7% to find a factor . UID: sanderh/PC, M5542549 completed P-1, B1=7, B2=7, WW1: 8F7EF481 UID: sanderh/PC, M5542723 completed P-1, B1=6,