Re: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95

1999-12-20 Thread Eric Hahn
George Woltman wrote: This is primarily directed at the 4 or 5 users dedicated to factoring exponents above 35 million. Prime95 version 19.1 has a bug that causes it to miss some factors for these large exponents. If you are one of the 4 or 5 affected users, please download version 19.2

RE: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95

1999-12-20 Thread Paul Leyland
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 December 1999 17:52 To: George Woltman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95 George Woltman wrote: This is primarily directed at the 4 or 5 users dedicated to factoring exponents above 35 million. Prime95 version

RE: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95

1999-12-20 Thread Alan Vidmar
L PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95 Date sent: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:33:03 -0800 Aargh!! I've spent *weeks* trial factoring some of those, time which could have been better spent in ECMNET. Unhappy. Ah well, it's going to hav

Mersenne: high factoring bug in prime95

1999-12-16 Thread George Woltman
Hi all, This is primarily directed at the 4 or 5 users dedicated to factoring exponents above 35 million. Prime95 version 19.1 has a bug that causes it to miss some factors for these large exponents. If you are one of the 4 or 5 affected users, please download version 19.2 to fix the