Well, I think the diffence of culture between the people of GIMPS and those
of SETI@Home can be illustred simply by the comparaison of subject of
discussion
between this list and sci.astro.seti. This is the listing of recent
subjects:
SETI@home Online Newsletter
On 30 Mar 00, at 10:27, Stefan Struiker wrote:
I will be more detailed later, once I collect and refine my thoughts, but
at this point let me say that I think it is the group attracted to SETI,
and the Area 51, uh, "enthusiasts," who need some work, not the MPrime
interface.
I tend to
On 30 Mar 00, at 13:37, Nathan Russell wrote:
What are the thresholds after which Prime95 does an additional bit of
factoring?
From the file common.h in the (publically available) source for v19:
/* Factoring limits based on complex formulas given the speed of the
*/
/* factoring code vs.
From: Bryon Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:01:53
1. To the average person, aliens are a lot "sexier" than prime numbers.
Anyone can picture little green men from Mars, but it takes a special
person to
I do wonder whether /any/ people can really appreciate the size of numbers
with the magnitude of the Mersenne primes. Running down the list of known
ones: (? signifies that I'm not sure how to represent the number)
I don't recall the details, but one nice example I heard to demonstrate
large
I'd just like to get a clarification on some files
I downloaded from the Entropia FTP.
Re the file of exponents, and how far they have
been trial factored.
I extracted a range using the decomp program. Each
exponent has a number by the side, but I am unclear to what this number
refers.
Mersenne Digest Friday, March 31 2000 Volume 01 : Number 713
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 01:28:21 -0500
From: Bruce A Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mersenne: GIMPS in Science News
Sorry to be slow with
