RE: Mersenne: bug in Wordpad?

2000-11-01 Thread Andrew Gibbons
Hi Henk, A year or so ago I discovered that there was a bug in one of the dlls that WordPad uses. The dll comes in many versions and is the Rich Edit Control. The bug occured whenever text was replaced at a particular boundary (64k I think). It didn't happen with the old version I was using but

Mersenne Digest V1 #789

2000-11-01 Thread Mersenne Digest
Mersenne Digest Wednesday, November 1 2000 Volume 01 : Number 789 -- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:36:12 + From: Gordon Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: Re: Output from nofactor.cmp On Mon, 30 Oct 2000

Mersenne: ECM update -- M727 finished up to 50 digits

2000-11-01 Thread David A. Miller
The last machine that I had working on M727 has finished its 1000 curves at B1=44M. This is enough to finish the recommended number of curves at that bound. Thus there are probably no factors below 10^50, and it won't be practical to find the factors with ECM. Have any other numbers received as