Re: Mersenne: M38 = M6972593

1999-07-08 Thread Eric Hahn
NOW it does, after the official announcement Remember when Roland found M37? Someone found a 0x000 residue in the report and beat George to the punch, so Scott modified the reports so that they would NOT post a zero residue automatically. So THIS time, when word came that

Re: Mersenne: M38 = M6972593

1999-07-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:50:42PM -0700, Eric Hahn wrote: (Note to Scott - create a dummy non-zero residue a stick it in the cleared exponents report). Too late!! The Cleared Exponents Report reads: I think he meant `next time' :-) /* Steinar */

Re: Mersenne: M38 = M6972593

1999-07-06 Thread Jeff Woods
NOW it does, after the official announcement Remember when Roland found M37? Someone found a 0x000 residue in the report and beat George to the punch, so Scott modified the reports so that they would NOT post a zero residue automatically. So THIS time, when word came that

Re: Mersenne: M38 = M6972593

1999-07-05 Thread GivenRandy
I'm curious - had this already been tested by someone else using the defective v17 software? Randy Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.aol.com/GivenRandy public key at http://members.aol.com/GivenRandy/pgpkey.asc Unsubscribe

Re: Mersenne: M38 = M6972593

1999-07-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
At 07:19 05.07.99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious - had this already been tested by someone else using the defective v17 software? No. /* Steinar */ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Lucas Wiman
The page belongs to a previous record holder... Took me about 30 seconds to find it. It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers... -Lucas Wiman Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
At 02:21 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote: The page belongs to a previous record holder... Took me about 30 seconds to find it. It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers... I didn't! Am I _that_ bad at searching the web? I looked at Gordon's page and Roland's page (found

Re: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
At 07:17 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote: All right, here's a hint: he held the record for largest prime, which was also a non-mersenne prime. Check the largest prime by year... David `Mr. Cray' himself? :-) /* Steinar */

Re: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
At 07:17 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote: You aren't searching for the right people. He didn't say it was a *GIMPS* record holder. You've just gotta know where to look. Found it -- 2^6972593-1 :-) Well, finding that in 30 seconds must mean you knew it was there, or you were incredibly

Re: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Lucas Wiman
The page belongs to a previous record holder... Took me about 30 seconds to find it. It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers... I didn't! Am I _that_ bad at searching the web? I looked at Gordon's page and Roland's page (found nothing), but couldn't find Joel's page. You

Re: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
At 08:32 01.07.99 -0300, Nicolau C. Saldanha wrote: Try the other record holders, there are not too many of them. You can find links to their home pages at www.mersenne.org. http://www.mat.puc-rio.br/~nicolau Don't worry, I've found it already. Looks like I lost the guessing game... /* Steinar

RE: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Hoogendoorn, Sander
Took me a bit longer but has M38 has 2098960 digits ;-) At 02:21 01.07.99 -0400, Lucas Wiman wrote: The page belongs to a previous record holder... Took me about 30 seconds to find it. It's nice to see a thirty-eighth line in /root/math/ref/mers... I didn't! Am I _that_ bad at searching the

RE: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
At 14:10 01.07.99 +0200, Hoogendoorn, Sander wrote: Try Landon Curt Noll Yes, I tried it after I send that message. The exponent is hardly secret now that even I can find it :-) /* Steinar */ Unsubscribe list info --

Re: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Lucas Wiman
Found it -- 2^6972593-1 :-) Well, finding that in 30 seconds must mean you knew it was there, or you were incredibly lucky... Does George know about this? Lucky. I went to yahoo.com and typed in 38th, and then stopped. I realized that I should look for the record holders, and through some

Re: Mersenne: M38

1999-07-01 Thread Jeff Woods
At 08:04 AM 7/1/99 -0400, you wrote: Well either that or I am *SEARCHER SUPREME*, but then I would have been the first to find it, on Landon's site. I would assume that George would know since he probably gave the exponent to him in the first place. There is a very short list of people that

Re: Mersenne: M38 guess

1999-06-30 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 07:43:33AM -0400, St. Dee wrote: I'll guess p~=6,740,001 :-) I'd recommend using a prime, but that's your problem, of course. Well, nobody has gone _over_ your guess, so it probably doesn't matter. (In all other case, choosing the highest non-checked prime above

Re: Mersenne: M38 in the news

1999-06-27 Thread Chip Lynch
This is a pretty good article... a few things I didn't know; someone should add a history section to the FAQ, for those of us that haven't been around too long. ;-) On the other hand, there are a few things that could be polished up in the article... to quote: "Although in theory an infinite

Re: Mersenne: M38, SETI, and other random stuff

1999-06-11 Thread Nicolau C. Saldanha
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Chris Nash wrote: Hi folks, As we all impatiently await verification of M38(?) a really stupid thought occurred to me, so apologies if it's a lot more ignorant than Chuck W.'s "definitive" post on the subject of GIMPS v SETI, or distributed computing in general. If