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Firstly we have Raffi finding a whole fistfull of 49152s, then Bo puts his 24576 tally to an incredible 7 on 1 machine, and then Martin finds a 49152 on his 5...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 4, 2004
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That is a good start but we want to test bigger exponents. :) I always think there are more primes in the lower exponents. Guess it is not always true. We have...
Bo Xiao
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Jan 5, 2004
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... In other news - The Pope's Catholic. ... We've had outragious luck with 49152. It won't keep up. 24576 is a touch under expectation, but not significantly ...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 5, 2004
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...that for finding 49152 primes, it's better to have a machine name that's later in the alphabet! (Sorry, Thomas, the capital letter has jinxed you!) Raffi...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 9, 2004
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... Initially I thought about calling my machines "zygote1", ... ;-) If only I did! -- Thomas...
thomas356222
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... I tried. Let me know if I made it. Bo...
Bo Xiao
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Jan 10, 2004
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Will someone please explain how boxiao06 keeps getting 24576 primes? Indeed, his latest (8th) put the PIES project up to a total of 600. Well done Bo. Note -...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 10, 2004
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Just a comment from an appreciative lurker. It really is great fun to see things like ... There was a time when only Mike Oakes and Daniel Heuer looked at...
David Broadhurst
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Jan 10, 2004
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Gigaspaz has just given up the ghost (HD failure). I'll use that as an excuse to shuffle some hardware around, which means I'll need to pull down my main...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 10, 2004
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I have a windows based p3 computer. How do I participate in the project. Leaving this I do not have constant internet connection but I can connect the client...
eharsh82
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Jan 11, 2004
3:21 am
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... Windows users must use the good old fashioned "primes by e-mail" technique. I'll reserve a range for you, and mail it to you. I'm in a sleep-deprived haze...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 11, 2004
5:11 am
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Is there anything to read on the cyclotomic sieve? How exactly does it work? Harsh ... but ... is...
eharsh82
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Jan 11, 2004
5:56 am
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Congratulations also go to Steven Harvey for pushing us back up to 600 primes after Michael Angel's _massive_ 300+ GFN submission 2 days ago which knocked ...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 12, 2004
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... You just cant stop it. 9th was reported. :) The machine sitting next to it is 3 times powerful but doesnt find 3 times the primes, not even close. Bo...
Bo Xiao
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Jan 18, 2004
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... Thanks David! The graph showing what we suffered is at http://fatphil.org/maths/PIES/ I noticed that within 10 minutes of the network coming back again,...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 19, 2004
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Perhaps your server had problems remembering all the words in the song about kotiverkkoyhdistys ? Let's see, how does it go... Kiitämme yhteistyöstä... ...
David Broadhurst
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Jan 19, 2004
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Hi, My box picked up the last 44 candidates although it asked for 50. Now it is at line 35. In next a few hours, all the results will be reported and we are...
Bo Xiao
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Feb 6, 2004
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It seemed that our comet of prime counts on the top-5000 is now on teh way dow. We peaked at 662 a few weeks back, but with some massive submissions from other...
Phil Carmody
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Apr 18, 2004
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http://primes.utm.edu/bios/top20.php?type=project&by=ScoreRank&at=4&id=541 Wheee! Phil ===== When inserting a CD, hold down shift to stop the AutoRun feature ...
Phil Carmody
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Apr 18, 2004
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... Excellent! But the next step is a very very big one :-( (But at least you are competing with yourself!) CC...
Chris Caldwell
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Apr 18, 2004
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... And entirely impossible. There aren't enough Generalised Eisenstein Fermats in the testable range. And there's no next range. I did try a simple...
Phil Carmody
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Apr 19, 2004
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wow, they are fast this time....
Bo Xiao
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May 21, 2004
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... While I believe the chance of error to be very small, I'll hold off my congratulations until the independent verification. In some ways it's amazing what...
Phil Carmody
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May 21, 2004
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The challenge is to get more PCs sign up for gfn, which is the only systematic attack that has a chance to upset gimps. Well, wrong forum I guess. This is not...
Bo Xiao
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May 21, 2004
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Since we lost Kimmo, the non-client-server ranges have been going a little slowly, and as the server's pool is about to empty I thought that I'd extend it...
Phil Carmody
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Jun 5, 2004
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... extend ... 2000000-2200000 ... Cool, this is good news for us lazy client-server addicts. ... the ... 1 ... Well, after I believe it was 10000 candidates...
Raffi Chaglassian
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Jun 5, 2004
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... If you find the known ones, then I'm happy to put it down to an unfortunate statistical anomaly it is then. Blame some French guy! Presently I think that...
Phil Carmody
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Jun 5, 2004
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... If you really expect 8, then the probability that you actually get less than 2 is, according to that french guy, (1+8)*exp(-8)=0.3% which smells a bit...
David Broadhurst
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Jun 6, 2004
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... The expectation might have been a bit less. Total range tested from pool 753823 Total tested candidates in pool 238979 # primes found so far 72 => Range...
Phil Carmody
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