[QUOTE=davieddy;264887]See [url=http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15700]"Is this a bug...or...?"[/url] thread in the Primenet forum.

David[/QUOTE]

it looks like I'm logged out on that page but not on this one.

[QUOTE=science_man_88;264892]it looks like I'm logged out on that page but not on this one.[/QUOTE]
This problem sounds a bit technical.
Better ask Christenson (or Silverman)

David

[QUOTE=science_man_88;264892]it looks like I'm logged out on that page but not on this one.[/QUOTE]It's because the link doesn't have "www." in front of "mersenneforum.org". The cookie that keeps you logged in is for "www.mersenneforum.org", not "mersenneforum.org".....

It took me a couple of times to figure that one out....

[QUOTE=schickel;264899]It's because the link doesn't have "www." in front of "mersenneforum.org". The cookie that keeps you logged in is for "www.mersenneforum.org", not "mersenneforum.org".....

It took me a couple of times to figure that one out....[/QUOTE]

That's what we need:
More smartarses:smile:

David

No Sacrifice
 

[QUOTE=Prime95;264818] I understand you and Bob have a rather unpleasant history. Let it go.
[/QUOTE]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrLkTZrPZA4]Two hearts beating in two separate worlds[/url]

David

[QUOTE=davieddy;264918]That's what we need:
More smartarses:smile:

David[/QUOTE]

I'd rather smartarses than smarta$$es like a few people I know ( sometimes me included)

Spelling differnces across the pond
 

[QUOTE=science_man_88;264956]I'd rather smartarses than smarta$$es like a few people I know ( sometimes me included)[/QUOTE]
In my days (father born 1903) "Ass"* meant either
1)A sort of donkey
2)An idiotic person

The common name for the rectum was spelt "arse".

Further confusion arises because you Yanks think "fanny" means "bottom"
whereas here in civilization it means "front bottom".

David

*Not sure whether anyone in the US knows how
pronounce a short "A" anymore.

PS "Jesus rode into somewhere (Jerusalem?) on an arse".
Doesn't sound right to me.

[QUOTE=davieddy;264842]
Look at the size of the typical factor found via P-1 compared with
the TF max to judge how little the two enterprizes overlap each other.

David[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=R.D. Silverman;264848]And you somehow think that this is a mathematical argument???

.....
I am suggesting that you can SAVE TIME by NOT running TF at all;
Just run P-1 with slightly higher bounds that are currently used.[/QUOTE]

TF limit = 2^70 (say).
As you pointed out, there is enough data to get an accurate distribution,
but factors found by P-1 can easily exceed 2^70 by 6 digits (20 bits)
P-1 "hit rate" ~6%
4 more bits of TF hit rate ~6%

Overlap not too much.

I would like to think Einstein would consider this as an "argument"
or at least a "thought experiment"

David

[QUOTE=Prime95;264828]

The moderators are merely trying to nip any flame wars in the bud. They were annoying to the combatants, the readers, and the moderators. [/QUOTE]

Yep.

I can't understand why HRB laid into the sensitive censorship
so much, but he is no fool, and (especially via PM) VERY funny.

He made the point that (for better or worse) the usual suspects
around here are non-stupid adults.

David

even further OT
 

[QUOTE=davieddy;264982]In my days (father born 1903) "Ass"* meant either
1)A sort of donkey
2)An idiotic person

The common name for the rectum was spelt "arse".

Further confusion arises because you Yanks think "fanny" means "bottom"
whereas here in civilization it means "front bottom".

David

*Not sure whether anyone in the US knows how
pronounce a short "A" anymore.

PS "Jesus rode into somewhere (Jerusalem?) on an arse".
Doesn't sound right to me.[/QUOTE]Just think of how much more influence on American speech[sup]*[/sup] that England would have now if it just hadn't so stubbornly insisted on taxation without colonial representation during a previous administration. :-)

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[sup]*[/sup] ... at least, influence on American speech east of the Appalachians, if not on the other languages that would now be prevalent westward of that range.

[QUOTE=cheesehead;265078]Just think of how much more influence on American speech[sup]*[/sup] that England would have now if it just hadn't so stubbornly insisted on taxation without colonial representation during a previous administration. :-)
[/QUOTE]

And the only "Tea Party" would be full of [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0]Mad Hatters[/url]