Due to the size of the top post in this thread, I had to split it to stay under the forum limit. I split the post along size lines: sequences that reached more than 100 digits are in the top post, the others are in the 2nd post. (Sorry, smh, I had to hijack your post to catch the spillover....)

Looks like we'll have to move some things around again after we get ~90 more terminations.....

[QUOTE=schickel;269983]Due to the size of the top post in this thread, I had to split it to stay under the forum limit. I split the post along size lines: sequences that reached more than 100 digits are in the top post, the others are in the 2nd post. (Sorry, smh, I had to hijack your post to catch the spillover....)

Looks like we'll have to move some things around again after we get ~90 more terminations.....[/QUOTE]

Is it technically possible to open a new thread (with 4 or 5 posts from start to catch eventual spillover, copying the first two posts from here to the new thread), and then cut everything in this thread (starting from post #3) and attach it to the new thread?

[QUOTE=Andi47;269995]Is it technically possible to open a new thread (with 4 or 5 posts from start to catch eventual spillover, copying the first two posts from here to the new thread), and then cut everything in this thread (starting from post #3) and attach it to the new thread?[/QUOTE]Something like that would be possible, but I just moved the second post (by smh) to the third post (also by smh) and split the first post into the second post. As I said, we're good for almost another 100 terminations; I don't think we'll have to worry about that for a long while.

Besides, the only reason not to delete the whole thread is just sentimentality. If we get truly squozen for space, the whole thread could be deleted except for the top post. But I figure newcomers might like to browse the thread to see the early progress....maybe they'll catch some of the excitement!

[QUOTE=schickel;269983](Sorry, smh, I had to hijack your post to catch the spillover....)

Looks like we'll have to move some things around again after we get ~90 more terminations.....[/QUOTE]No hard feelings ;-)
When time comes, go ahead and hijack the 3rd post.

Or just use an attachment...

[QUOTE=Andi47;269995]Is it technically possible to open a new thread (with 4 or 5 posts from start to catch eventual spillover, copying the first two posts from here to the new thread), and then cut everything in this thread (starting from post #3) and attach it to the new thread?[/QUOTE]
The tricky part is that posts are sorted entirely by chronological order within a thread--which means if you copy older posts into a new thread, they will push the first post down accordingly.

There is a little trick, though, that you can use (most of the time) to create a new second post (or actually anywhere in the thread you want) with whoever's name you want on it. What you need to do is find another post by that person somewhere else (anywhere in any subforum you have mod privileges for) in the appropriate time range--that is, after the first post but before the second post. Then, use the "Copy Post" feature to make a copy of it and merge the copy into the desired thread. You can then edit the copy, delete its original content (which is likely totally irrelevant to the thread you just put it in), and replace it with whatever you want.

This procedure doesn't always work, for instance if a post by the right person in the right time frame doesn't exist (this might happen particularly if someone replied to the thread within just a minute or two after it was created); but in such a case, you may still be able to use "Copy Post" on the original second post in the thread, thus making two of it, one of which you can edit as needed while still retaining the other. I haven't tried this particular version myself, so I don't know if you can indeed copy a post to the same thread, but I would imagine a good chance that it would work.

[Nope, false alarm again!]

Actually, all I did was take over the second post in the thread and move the original contents to the third post, since in this thread, smh made the first two replies after I opened the thread.....and as I said, we're good for almost 100 more terminations. (Actually, we could squeeze a few more in if we drop some of the explanatory text in the footnotes....)

734184 terminates at step 3473, a long time after its maximum of 111 digits at term 852.
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[QUOTE=bchaffin;272661]734184 terminates at step 3473, a long time after its maximum of 111 digits at term 852.[/QUOTE]Wow! Almost a month exactly since the last one, and it was you the last time, too!

A lucky couple days for me: 774360 terminates in 1838 steps, from a peak of 110 digits.

[quote=bchaffin]A lucky couple days for me: 774360 terminates in 1838 steps, from a peak of 110 digits. [/quote][Obligatory davieddy reference]
:sad: WMG says "No Music For You!"

Nice catch.....can you leave some for the rest of us?

[SIZE="1"]I probably shouldn't admit that I remember hearing this on the radio the first time around, huh? [/SIZE]