Hi folks, *growl* I forgot to change my mail program over to sort mail with the new e-mail address yahoogroups - I hate the sound of that, it just conjure up...
Chris Nash
chris_nash@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:59 am
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... I hope you're using the GMP mpz_perfect_square_p function (or whatever it's called). It's pretty close to optimal, and recently I've been chatting with the...
Phil Carmody
fatphil@...
Feb 1, 2001 1:21 pm
331
... Excellent! ... ****greater than the cube root of N/1000000**** Tony's source says that VFYPR can do this with 3 digits short of N^(1/3), ... but for some...
d.broadhurst@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:53 pm
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I have a case that is just beyond the (N/10^6)^(1/3) reach of PFGW. I did it with VFYPR: (873^937-1)/872 2753 F2 01 Generalized repunit, APR-CL assisted ...
d.broadhurst@...
Feb 2, 2001 1:03 am
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... Then , maybe, allow the (suitably warned) user to set her/his supra-BLS limit, with a flag -extrabits <n> Benchmark: VFYPR took half an hour to squeezed...
d.broadhurst@...
Feb 2, 2001 1:11 am
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... In the immortal words of "Name that Tune", I can prove that prime with a 2 byte change to the source code ;) Jim. pfgw -t -hg873_prm.txt -e1 -qphi(937,873)...
Jim Fougeron
jfoug@...
Feb 2, 2001 2:45 am
335
... If you think about it a bit, you will see that there is a decent chance of this happening. Naively it might occur in several percent of the real world...
d.broadhurst@...
Feb 2, 2001 2:47 am
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... I told you it was *real* close! Wonderful how folk in these parts rise to a challenge. ... So please turn that into -extrabits flag for the next dev, kind...
d.broadhurst@...
Feb 2, 2001 2:56 am
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Topic was: Re: [openpfgw] Re: Happy about math in PFGW ... Ok, I guess it is time to have a todo list of things which people want, and then prioritize these...
Jim Fougeron
jfoug@...
Feb 2, 2001 3:45 am
338
... 9. Better documentation. Micha has started on a very nice "readme" type file. I have seen a v.0.1 version of this document, and it looks very good....
Jim Fougeron
jfoug@...
Feb 2, 2001 3:56 am
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the openpfgw group. File :...
openpfgw@yahoogroups....
Feb 12, 2001 4:50 pm
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the openpfgw group. File :...
openpfgw@yahoogroups....
Feb 12, 2001 4:52 pm
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the openpfgw group. File : /changes.txt ...
openpfgw@yahoogroups....
Feb 12, 2001 4:53 pm
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Hi all, A new Win32 dev version has been up'd to OpenPFGW. Please try this out before I turn it loose on PrimeForm. Lots of new things added, see the...
jfoug@...
Feb 12, 2001 5:14 pm
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Here are some "problem numbers" pfgw -t -q4800^3+1 pfgw -t -q7560^3+1 pfgw -t -q12840^3+1 pfgw -t -q14700^3+1 These will loop on and on. I am not sure if these...
jfoug@...
Feb 12, 2001 5:25 pm
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Thanks a tonne for -x. I checked some old ones this way. Haven't got a new one for real, just now. David...
d.broadhurst@...
Feb 12, 2001 11:02 pm
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... The -x is not bulletproof just yet. It seems to cause a GP when -x# is several million. The GP happens after about a 10-30 second wait. I have not had...
jfoug@...
Feb 13, 2001 12:39 am
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H:\pform>pfgw "-q(2^32-2^19-1)*2^9000+1" PFGW Version 20010212.Win_Dev (Beta software, 'caveat utilitor') (2^32-2^19-1)*2^9000+1 is composite: (2.393000...
Phil Carmody
fatphil@...
Mar 6, 2001 3:49 pm
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... Yes, a very easy answer. One of them (4294443007*2^9000+1) fits into a "prothable" form, the other does not. The faster version uses Chris's proth...
jfoug@...
Mar 6, 2001 7:46 pm
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Hi folks ... Hmmm, this looks like a very strange bit of Woltman representation causing a very unusual side-effect, my guess is the clue is somewhere in the...
Chris Nash
chris_nash@...
Mar 8, 2001 7:44 am
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Hi all, After persuading a few friends of mine that it would be a good idea to give some clock cycles to my latest project (I won't tell you what it is till ...
Michael Bell
mdb36@...
Mar 10, 2001 5:47 pm
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Hi folks Carlos Rivera (crivera@...) wrote to me today asking for some help on a search he is organizing to try and find numbers that are ...
Chris Nash
chris_nash@...
Mar 11, 2001 12:43 am
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Hi there folks ... server ... some ... check in ... This sounds *very* exciting... it's something I know Jim has been aching to have a look at, and I had a...
Chris Nash
chris_nash@...
Mar 11, 2001 1:02 am
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Hi folks, Concentrated effort tonight to bring the site back in line with a few updates that Jim did after the January 28 drop. This is the first chance I've...
Chris Nash
chris_nash@...
Mar 11, 2001 2:11 am
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Hi folks, I've finally got around to updating the source drops on the web site to be inline with Jim's zip archive in the files area - the new drop is ...
Chris Nash
chris_nash@...
Mar 11, 2001 4:18 am
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... Unix never needs more than stdin and stdout. The shell can be used to redirect these through a program like net-cat 'nc', I'm sure. It may take a 3 line...
Phil Carmody
fatphil@...
Mar 11, 2001 11:00 am
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WOW! actual email on the channel ;) I still have a couple of small changes to get to you Chris, along with I noticed that the version was not changed in the...
Jim Fougeron
jfoug@...
Mar 12, 2001 12:25 am
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Chris, Here are the changes. Everything else looked good. Even with the header change, the win build enviroment did not change (thank God ;) Do you think I...
Jim Fougeron
jfoug@...
Mar 12, 2001 4:08 am
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Chris, One additional issue. In the dev-winbuild*.zip there were a bunch of *.h files in the pfconfig\headers. It does not hurt much if they are there, but...
Jim Fougeron
jfoug@...
Mar 12, 2001 4:10 am
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... Whoops, Guess I did already. Sorry for the attachment post guys. Jim....