Re: Mersenne: biiiiig perfect number

1999-03-08 Thread Henrik Olsen
*that* number in hex, I would clear off a space on my office wall for it. {8-] Anyone accept the challenge? Lots of F's, followed by one fewer 0's, not a lot prettier. :) -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest

Re: Mersenne: Mersenne Processor

1999-03-09 Thread Henrik Olsen
, so why aren't there UltraSPARC and Alpha PrimeNet clients? Brayn Nobody's given one to George Woltman yet? -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there. Unsubscribe list info

Re: Mersenne: Spam

1999-03-18 Thread Henrik Olsen
. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there. Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: Need info about K6

1999-03-25 Thread Henrik Olsen
of the problem. http://www2.tripnet.se/~nlg/mersenne/benchmk.htm Though it only has results for the K6, not for the K6-2, but the main speed advance for K6-2 was in the additional 3DNow! instructions, which aren't used for prime95, so it should still hold. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL

Re: Mersenne: Version 18.1

1999-04-02 Thread Henrik Olsen
. The deleting of v17 save files below 4.2M is fixed. I hope you didn't do as said in the whatsnew.txt, shouldn't it be KEEPING those below 4194304? 2) Only v17 save files below 4194304 are deleted. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest

Re: Mersenne: A dreadful Virus called Milessa!

1999-04-02 Thread Henrik Olsen
riggered all my hoax detectors due to the total lack of references, but luckily I'd already been informed by a more reliable source. For more info and the straight dope, check http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-04-Melissa-Macro-Virus.html -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.i

Mersenne: Connection to primenet blocking under Linux

1998-12-12 Thread Henrik Olsen
. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Re: Mersenne: Linux Client

1998-12-25 Thread Henrik Olsen
109 on win95 compared to 0.115-0.117 under Linux. FWIW, I start it with (cd /DOSd/mprime; nohup ./mprime -d mprime.run ) so I get a running report in /DOSd/mprime/mprime.run the nohup is just because I'm paranoid, it's probably not useful at all:) -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=htt

Mersenne: Primenet server woes

1998-12-28 Thread Henrik Olsen
Hi, Does anyone know what's been up with the server this past 26 hours? -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Re: Mersenne: Primenet server unreachable

1999-01-04 Thread Henrik Olsen
at's going on might be a good idea. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Re: Mersenne: Let's recruit her for GIMPS

1999-01-16 Thread Henrik Olsen
ation done first, thus enabling them to prevent any unlicenced use by others, including the discoverer. She's showing her age with that comment:( -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Re: Mersenne: mprime for QA or performance?

1999-01-16 Thread Henrik Olsen
to the processor clock, so either you're measuring clock drift (and yes, that is temperature linked) or due to your small samples the variance mentioned which is about 1% is actually noice. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Mersenne: Trial factoring not getting credited?

1999-01-19 Thread Henrik Olsen
isn't credited as such? -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Re: Mersenne: Problems with ATI graphics

1999-01-29 Thread Henrik Olsen
an excellent time to test the warranty on those motherboards, as they're obviously defective, and fundamentally flawed in their design. Henrik -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Re: Mersenne: Prime testing on 486 running linux

1999-02-03 Thread Henrik Olsen
for ecmnet instead. (and as a fax machine, that's why it's always running:) -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Re: Mersenne: Updating user preferences on Primenet server

1999-02-08 Thread Henrik Olsen
ing the indication of the type of assignment, two things I wonder about the reason for. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

Re: Mersenne: Factoring bignums

1999-05-13 Thread Henrik Olsen
7108860903 * 28685059068699533197755335074782923141 14.11user 0.01system 0:15.72elapsed 89%CPU This on a 188MHz Pentium. You can get giantint from http://www.perfsci.com/ -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ `Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.' `

RE: Mersenne: I am curious

1999-05-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
made it all possible, though I can understand if people think giving up 25.000$ for a principle sounds idealistic. :) -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ `Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.' `So you can count up to

RE: Mersenne: usefulness and 486's

1999-05-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
how that would work in details isn't clear, since I couldn't find the source for the factoring part of the program when I looked. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ `Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.' `So you can count

Re: Mersenne: Getting maximum speed out of a Linux machine

1999-05-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
This will also be the reason for the difference on Linux, since the VM model is completely different, and Linux specifically works around some of the stupidities of the chipsets. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ `Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss.

RE: Mersenne: EFF and 10,000,000 digits

1999-06-07 Thread Henrik Olsen
alculations, because the former is a 100MHz*3.5, and the latter is 66MHz*4.5, making the memory access for the first system a lot faster. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are cr

Re: Mersenne: Prime 95 Error Messages/ Misc

1999-06-07 Thread Henrik Olsen
lockcycles, then adjusting for the speed you yourself said your processor was running at. My guess is that you didn't change the cpu speed you'd told prime95 when you lowered the frequency, and since the problem takes the same number of clockcycles, it's reported as taking the same time. -- Henrik Ol

Re: Mersenne: Poaching

1999-06-12 Thread Henrik Olsen
for the PII-400 is running at 200MHz and at 400MHz on the C400 making the speed comparison every more impossible:) -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup

Re: Mersenne: re: Mersenne prime exponent binary representationsand 1's frequency (incl M38)

1999-07-12 Thread Henrik Olsen
You can read about it at Eric's Treasure Trove of Math (seems to be down right now or I'd give the URL). It would take me a few paragraphs to explain, but I'll do it if you can't find it elsewhere. http://www.treasure-troves.com/ -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.

Re: Mersenne: Benford's law (was exp. representations)

1999-07-13 Thread Henrik Olsen
niformly distributed numbers, gathered from multiple ranges of exponentially distributed length (eg. house numbers). Since powers of numbers are just about the cleanest exponentially distributed set of numbers you can get, it shouldn't really come as a surprise that they fix the law:) -- Henrik Olsen,

Re: Mersenne: subtracting 2: error in FAQ

1999-07-18 Thread Henrik Olsen
little, though not for free. The really big save in the algorithm is that the mod operation is not only for free, but halves the size of the convolution as well, making everything come out nice and fast. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Thomas Daggert

Re: Mersenne: redhat 6 - segfault

1999-08-08 Thread Henrik Olsen
. :) (the mprime.tar.gz one) Any help? I've had a lot of problems with mixed glibc 2.0 and 2.1 compiled programs segfaulting immediately on start, it seemed to be a problem with proigrams compiled for 2.0, and run on a 2.1 system. (Yes, I really mean old binaries die on a new system) -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn

Re: Mersenne: Linux mprime and glibc 2.1

1999-08-16 Thread Henrik Olsen
-- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Orson Welles: Rosebud. (dies) Reporter: What does it mean? Everybody Else: We don't know. Citizen Kane, the Movie-A-Minute version

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-14 Thread Henrik Olsen
is something completely different. TomG -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Darth Vader: Luke, come to the dark side. Luke: No. Darth Vader: Your goodness has redeemed me. Die, emperor scum. Return of the Jedi, the Movie

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Chris Jefferson wrote: On 14 Sep 99, at 7:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: Personally I found installing and running it to be an extremely smooth operation, to the point where it takes less that 2 minutes to install on a new machine, including configuration, after which

Re: Mersenne: Re: primes source

1999-09-18 Thread Henrik Olsen
for this, it's far too restrictive, and the fact that the security stuff isn't included in the public code would actually be in direct violation of it. BTW, the gpl does not prevent commercial use. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Flinx: Everybody wants to kidnap

Re: Mersenne: Re: primes source

1999-09-19 Thread Henrik Olsen
. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Somewhere almost out of hearing, children were at play. It was always a pleasant, lulling sound. Always provided, of course, you couldn't hear the actual words. Terry

Re: Mersenne: glitches in mprime v19?

1999-10-10 Thread Henrik Olsen
e list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ A Pentium is a terrible thing to waste, http://www.me

Re: Mersenne: Factoring numbers...

1999-10-12 Thread Henrik Olsen
fo -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ No, power off on shutdown is not SMP safe. It kind of happens to work on a lot of boards. If making that APM call refo

Re: Mersenne: problem with prme95 - spl file - ME TOO !

1999-10-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
, there is no communication spooled. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Thomas Daggert to Lucifer: I have my soul, and I have my faith. What do you have... angel? The Prophecy

Re: Mersenne: problem with prme95 - spl file - ME TOO !

1999-10-16 Thread Henrik Olsen
ww.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Catherine: Go to hell! Gabriel: Heaven, heaven. At least get the zip code right. The Prophecy _ Unsubscribe list info

Re: Mersenne: Milestone!

1999-10-18 Thread Henrik Olsen
at the last exponents in the 1.4M range, where the last ones to finish got checked three or four times. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ I'd like somebody to sacrifice their first-borne son, and write in blood that gas does the right thing every time these days

Re: Mersenne: IPS Database Synchronization

1999-12-02 Thread Henrik Olsen
h 45 results since last sync 37 of which are doublechecks I probably wouldn't remember anyway. The long list is definitely not strange. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ `Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.' `So you can coun

Re: Mersenne: RE: Fibonacci Series

1999-12-17 Thread Henrik Olsen
/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Thomas Covenant: I am the savior of The Land. Linden Avery: Can I help? Thomas Covenant: Over my dead body.(dies) (Linden Avery saves The Land.) The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book

Re: Mersenne: The Second Mersennium Behind Us, How Now For MyriadThe Third?

2000-01-11 Thread Henrik Olsen
fo -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Leonardo DiCaprio: Your social class is stuffy. Let's dance with the ship's rats and have fun. Kate Winslet

Re: Mersenne: k63-450 cpu

2000-01-17 Thread Henrik Olsen
to 90F This sounds like it might also be your memory that's borderline, are you using PC100 memory? -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup

Re: Mersenne: Factoring beyond ECM

2000-01-22 Thread Henrik Olsen
Foghorn Leghorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Thomas Daggert to Lucifer: I have my soul, and I have my faith. What do you have... angel? The Prophecy

Re: Mersenne: Size of largest prime factor

2000-01-24 Thread Henrik Olsen
that there are infinitely many Mersenne composites is easy. :) Cheers, Paul Landon -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ `Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.' `So you can count up to ...?' Susan prompted. `Thirteen, miss,' said

RE: Mersenne: small OS setup for mprime

2000-01-26 Thread Henrik Olsen
e of doing a diskless mprime machine, and I never did solve the problem of saving the state without an nfs server, though it might be possible to solve using a samba share for the temp files. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ It wasn't by eliminating the

Re: Mersenne: SMP GIMPSing And Sharing The Burden

2000-02-02 Thread Henrik Olsen
processors: 1 / MaxSpeedRoom = f + (1 - f) / p _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen

Re: Mersenne: AMD Athlon problems

2000-02-08 Thread Henrik Olsen
Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Flinx: Everybody wants to kidnap me. Oh well, I'll travel the galaxy and have boring adventures. (Pip the Flying Snake spits at something and kills

Re: Mersenne: pi

2000-02-09 Thread Henrik Olsen
from false analogies. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Linux isn't at war. War involves large numbers of people making losing decisions that harm each other in a vain attempt to lose last. Linux is about winning.Alan Cox

Re: Mersenne: Dumb Newbie Question

2000-03-08 Thread Henrik Olsen
inspection tightens up again. It's the deay that causes clustering here. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Many are my names in many countries. [EMAIL PROTECTED] among the Elves, [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the Dwarves; [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was in my youth in the West

Re: Mersenne: NTPRIME and it's priority...

2000-03-14 Thread Henrik Olsen
showed up in the process list as an apparently legal process, and crontab'ed so it only ran during nights. I was overridden by management on both suing for breach of contract, and reporting the incident to the police, apparently they felt the application he was installing was too important. -- He

RE: Mersenne: NTPRIME and it's priority...

2000-03-14 Thread Henrik Olsen
WEST could attest that NTPRIME was probably the most well behaved piece of software on those machines... :-) :) Aaron -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Somewhere almost out of hearing, children were at play. It was always a pleasant, lulling soun

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-14 Thread Henrik Olsen
on such a system, which is a bit of a bummer, as I as I don't want to have to run it as root. :( Does a solution exist for running mprime on such a system or will I have to use this one as well for SNFS sieving instead of GIMPS? -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Brian J. Beesley wrote: On 15 Apr 00, at 4:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: I just tried downloading 20.3, both mprime and sprime, as well as tried with mprime 19.0.2 . None of them where able to detect the network as being available on a machine running Mandrake Linux

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
alone is not a good indication whether there's currently a dialled up connection. Regards, George -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledic

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: At 14:51 15.04.2000 +0200, Henrik Olsen wrote: On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Brian J. Beesley wrote: On 15 Apr 00, at 4:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: I just tried downloading 20.3, both mprime and sprime, as well as tried with mprime 19.0.2

RE: Mersenne: Just curious

2000-04-19 Thread Henrik Olsen
. :) -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Example is better than following it. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http

Re: Mersenne: Overclocking

2000-05-07 Thread Henrik Olsen
perfectly fine exept for that. Thanks all! Consider it an indication that the CPU really can't work reliably at that speed and don't use it so fast. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Speak of the Devil and he will hear about

[OT] Mersenne: M(M(19)) revisited

2000-05-08 Thread Henrik Olsen
! Careful, that MUD can be awfully addictive as I can attest with 129 DAYS of accumulated online time (I'm Olorin there) Regards Dave -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Speak of the Devil and he will hear about

Re: Mersenne: M#36 M#37

2000-05-22 Thread Henrik Olsen
happened - sorry for that inconvenience. The recent phase of cutovers is complete; the next phase will be several weeks from now. Any chance an announcement can be posted here in advance next time so people know what to expect? Regards, Scott Kurowski Entropia -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions

Re: Mersenne: Clarification on M#39, M#40, M727...

2000-06-06 Thread Henrik Olsen
thing else?? Eric _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ What is

Re: Mersenne: Re: Top Producers

2000-08-24 Thread Henrik Olsen
value) Cheers... Russ -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ "'Chapter Fifteen, Elementary Necromancy'", she read out loud. "'Lesson One: Correct Use of Shovel...'" Te

Re: Mersenne: Exponent already completed?

2000-10-21 Thread Henrik Olsen
How did this happen? This machine has been working on this exponent for two weeks. The exponent is 10544533. I checked the competed exponent list and the user "LAKE_COMMS" claims to have completed it on Oct 5th. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://w

Re: SV: Mersenne: Strange factor arrived though not calculating it

2001-11-02 Thread Henrik Olsen
as is 2*3*5*7*11*13*17*19*23*29*31*37*39-1 so you could just use one of those. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Holder of the special bastard visionary award for debugging unreleased code. (At least according to Sean MacGuire

Re: Mersenne: Work being wasted

2002-02-04 Thread Henrik Olsen
) :-) The idea here wasn't that you'd never get the small ones done, but that if someone else finished one of them out of order, it would be removed from your reserved numbers without you wasting any work on it. -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ That seems

Re: Mersenne: More error info

2002-08-31 Thread Henrik Olsen
2 92.6% 10375 58 86.6% -- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup