Am I the only one who has noticed that Primo actually seems to run faster under wine than under windows? It doesn't seem to make sense, so I'm thinking it...
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Phil Carmody
fatphil@...
Sep 1, 2001 4:19 pm
... Which windoze? I once saw some SETI benchmarks, which showed a _huge_ difference between block times on identical hardware depending on which version of...
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paulmillscv@...
Sep 1, 2001 4:28 pm
Hello to all, Thank you for your critical responses to my posting of Fermat's Last Theorem. I have gathered the results together in a notes paper at this...
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Chris Nash
chris_nash@...
Sep 1, 2001 5:49 pm
Hi folks, The administrative assistants of many math faculties throughout the world are often deluged with "proofs" of FLT/Goldbach/Riemann/whatever. The only...
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Phil Carmody
fatphil@...
Sep 1, 2001 7:59 pm
On Sat, 01 September 2001, "Chris Nash" wrote: [SNIP - sage words on FLT "proofs"] Personally, I view FLT as a) proved already. b) _off-topic_ for a _primes_...
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d.broadhurst@...
Sep 1, 2001 11:49 pm
Phil Carmody wrote ... Of which Wieferich's is one. Paul Mills may be excused for being 90 years off the pace, but his reluctance to admit that Wieferich kills...
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Hans.Rosenthal@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:17 am
David Broadhurst wrote: [Snip] ... Some less digits from me and some more digits from Giovanni (and from someone else) seem to be likely before Christmas :) ...
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Milton Brown
miltbrown@...
Sep 2, 2001 1:00 am
I have just posted to H. Lifchitz PRP page the number 10^10000 + 28579 as a PRP. This with my previous posting of 10^10000 - 22403 produces a prime gap of...
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d.broadhurst@...
Sep 2, 2001 1:17 am
Milton Brown wrote ... Apples and oranges! There is no comparison with the gap of Harvey Dubner, which is between *proven* primes. In a week or so, that record...
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Milton Brown
miltbrown@...
Sep 2, 2001 1:27 am
By Einstien's relative time I guess you mean "any day now". ... From: <d.broadhurst@...> To: <primenumbers@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, September...
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Norman Luhn
nluhn@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:56 pm
Hi all! My speculation is... When we have the equation 1+p1*p# then we find ever a prime !? Note ! 0<p1<p# and p1 is prime. Here are any examples. primes are ...
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paulunderwood@...
Sep 2, 2001 2:33 pm
Hi ... If you mean 1+p(i)*p(n)# for 0<i<=n then n=401 is a counterexample. Or do you mean 0<i<p(n)? ;-) Paul...
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d.broadhurst@...
Sep 2, 2001 3:24 pm
Paul Underwood wrote ... n=54 is a smaller one....
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Markus Frind
flames@...
Sep 2, 2001 4:50 pm
Sorry i have been away for a while, I used the 2 versions of primeform kicking around. After 5 days of searching i have found another new record, a titanic...
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Phil Carmody
fatphil@...
Sep 2, 2001 5:02 pm
... Sieve them using Paul Jobling's NewPGen first. Phil Mathematics should not have to involve martyrdom; Support Eric Weisstein, see...
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Markus Frind
flames@...
Sep 2, 2001 5:05 pm
Sorry i forgot to say i was using newPgen. The problem is i have them all in a output file that pfgw generated is there anyway i can use that file as a...
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Phil Carmody
fatphil@...
Sep 2, 2001 9:53 pm
... pfgw understands all the old NewPGen headers, so you can just prepend that to the file. However, it also supports the 'ABC' and 'ABC2' file formats which...
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Hugo Scolnik
scolnik@...
Sep 2, 2001 10:11 pm
I am interested in knowing more about the Euler´s factoring method (Hans Riesel´s book, second edition, pp. 151-152) for a course in number theory. As you...
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d.broadhurst@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:21 pm
Some time ago, in another [*] place, I commented on the Williams-Lenstra proofs for the following primes: V(57724) 12063 Lucas primitive part ...
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d.broadhurst@...
Sep 3, 2001 12:23 am
PS: There was a typo in the first table, here corrected: lucasU(287,-1,3079) 7566 Generalized Lucas number primV( 4, 1,7487) 4282 Generalized Lucas...
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Hans.Rosenthal@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:47 am
...something about: 10^b+c*10^a+1 b > 1 0 < a < b c in {2,3,5,6,8,9} a, b, c integers ? Hans...
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d.broadhurst@...
Sep 3, 2001 3:53 am
Lieber Hans! Ich wußte nicht, daß die Mentalität mit 10 Fingern Deutschland auch ansteckte. David [Babelfish available at: http://world.altavista.com/tr]...
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ajw01@...
Sep 3, 2001 5:27 am
... Did someone mention 4,1 ?? Here's a few rules I worked out earlier! P=4, Q=1 U(n)^2=U(n-1)U(n+1) U(2n+1)-1=U(n)V(n+1) U(2n+1)+1=V(n)U(n+1) ...
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ajw01@...
Sep 3, 2001 5:35 am
... Oops, lucasV(4,1,18869)/4 is PRP These also have factors of the form 12n+1 which is nice! Andrew...
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Hans.Rosenthal@...
Sep 3, 2001 6:07 am
... Now you know. My question may be interesting for prime hunters with less or more than ten fingers as well :) Hans having 0 < fingers < 19...
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d.broadhurst@...
Sep 3, 2001 6:34 am
... Yes, indeed! Bouk and I have already mined it deep. Recall we had discrim=12 in our sights a good way back: ...
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d.broadhurst@...
Sep 3, 2001 6:52 am
Further to our 13 proofs of titanic primV(4,1,n) numbers Bouk and I can report 5 proofs of titanic lucasU(a,-1,n) a n digs Cmin F1 F2 status 16 1031...
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joe.mclean@...
Sep 3, 2001 9:16 am
Using the log(p):g ratio, this comes in at about 0.287, which is better than Milton's but not as good as Jose Luis'. Of course, purely on a size basis it is...
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Milton Brown
miltbrown@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:03 pm
They are minimal prime gaps (the gaps can only get larger if either end point is proved not to be prime). Also they are prime gaps with probabilty 99.999.. %. ...
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joe.mclean@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:23 pm
Milt, the list doesn't exist yet, but I'll get round to it soon enough - it consists at the moment (in a virtual sense) only of the 5 known runs in excess of...
