[QUOTE=Aramis Wyler;356721]The most efficient way ...[/QUOTE]
+1 :goodposting:

I want that card. I am redirecting my GPUs to trial factoring exponents assigned for LL testing to Aramis.

[QUOTE=TObject;356722]What if you were 97% done, and somebody reports a factor. Would you still send him or her the card? LOL[/QUOTE]

No, I'd finish the work probably, at 97%, but I'd wish someone else had factored it about 11 months prior, and probably grouse about the attitude against factoring and the assignment method that assigns me a number factored to 74 where there's a candidate with a P that is 7 higher but is factored up to 79.

Also I think I might get more selective about the numbers I was choosing, and start manually pulling whatever had been factored the highest rather than try to just pull the lowest numbers in that range.

But damn I'd be happy if it was early on in the assignment, It'd save me a lot of time. :smile:

[QUOTE=TObject;356731]I want that card. I am redirecting my GPUs to trial factoring exponents assigned for LL testing to Aramis.[/QUOTE]

lol! :smile: I don't actually do LL assignments anymore, as I feel I'm of more use doing factoring and P-1. But if you ran factoring for all my LL numbers I'd be so grateful, even if I think you'd be able to do more useful work in other areas.

[QUOTE=firejuggler;356658]yep but "History" will forget that "I" ll'ed it. The result is not the same.[/QUOTE]

That's not quite true...

The PrimeNet database [B][I][U]will[/U][/I][/B] remember that you LLed it. Even if you LLed it after it was factored. And you will retain the LL credit.

I don't remember the "private" URL report which George publicly shared with all of us on this forum several years ago, but to the best of my knowledge this is still the case.

Always willing to be corrected if I'm wrong.

[QUOTE=cheesehead;356659]I've seen it happen. Also, there's a specific statement around somewhere (I'll post when I find it) that the purpose was to motivate folks to finish the recommended amount of factoring before doing the LL (plus, implicitly, to take responsibility for verifying that the recommended factoring had been done before starting LL themselves).[/QUOTE]

I think you're wrong.

[QUOTE=Aramis Wyler;356745] and probably grouse about the attitude against factoring and the assignment method that assigns me a number factored to 74 where there's a candidate with a P that is 7 higher but is factored up to 79.[/QUOTE]

Or rather you could grouse about people factoring on your LL assignment when there's plenty of other things to factor as well.

Or I could grouse about people grousing about theoretical poaching instead of grousing about the fact that people are wasting 4000 GHz-days per 332M exponent instead of doing 32 exponents in the 60M area...

Or everyone could shut up and get back to crunching...

[QUOTE=axn;356673]I vaguely remember, way back when, there used to be two sets of credits, one from Primenet (which was never deducted), and one maintained manually by George, which was sometimes deducted (perhaps for the condition that you mention).[/QUOTE]That's it! I'd forgotten about the two sets!

[QUOTE=chalsall;356760]I think you're wrong.[/QUOTE]

The only wrong part was that I was speaking of George's set of credits, not PrimeNet's.

[QUOTE=c10ck3r;356772]Or everyone could shut up and get back to crunching...[/QUOTE]

IMO, a reasonable position.

We're here to do work helping to find the next largest known prime number, after all.

(Or, at least, most of us are. Credits are just a game we play amongst ourselves -- there's no real value in them.)

[QUOTE=c10ck3r;356772]Or I could grouse about people grousing about...

Or everyone could shut up and get back to crunching...[/QUOTE]

Hey, I can do both! :razz: