Now that "For Research" has completed the poaching of the last two 32M exponents the milestones page can be updated to show the date all exponents below 33M were completed.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;390647]Another suggested milestone:
"Lowest exponent with an incomplete factorization: x,xxx."
and/or
"Lowest exponent requiring more ECM: x,xxx."[/QUOTE]

Targeted milestones. Good idea !

This would mean someone would always be working on these
"next" exponents, covering gaps from the bottom quicker.
Yes?

[QUOTE=retina;390650]Now that "For Research" has completed the poaching of the last two 32M exponents the milestones page can be updated to show the date all exponents below 33M were completed.[/QUOTE]

Thanks: milestone page updated.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;390631]Having the number of days since the last prime was found would nice.[/QUOTE]

Here is a "countup":

[URL="http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20130125T173026&p0=405&msg=M57%2C885%2C161"]http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20130125T173026&p0=405&msg=M57%2C885%2C161[/URL]

We just passed 1M minutes = 60M sec today. Coming up on 700 days in 5 days.

[QUOTE=ATH;390684]Here is a "countup":[/QUOTE]I keep track of it myself, along with various aspects related to gaps etc. I was thinking it would be good for the causal page view to see it.

[LIST=1][*]Estimated completion dates based on the last {30, 90, 365} days of throughput.[*]The all-time highest 30-day TFLOPS.[*]The highest current "mainstream" (i.e. non-hand-selected) LL/DC assignments.[*]The current bit level and range (e.g. 644M) of LMH assignments. Possibly also add ETC for the bit level.[*]Countdown to the upper end of the classical GIMPS range (79.3M).[*]Countdowns to 100M, 1B.[/LIST]
Depending on how much new information we begin to incorporate, perhaps a new "GIMPS Dashboard" page would be a good idea, so as to avoid taking the Milestones report too far afield from its intended purpose.

Another idea: Extend [URL=http://www.mersenne.org/report_classic]this[/URL] report to include higher ranges, e.g. up to 100M, 332M, or even 1B. A button to convert back-and-forth between GHz-days and P90-years would *really* sex things up.

One more idea: Davieddy's Interval, i.e. the number of days until we expect to find the next Mersenne prime, per Poisson.

[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;390822]One more idea: Davieddy's Interval, i.e. the number of days until we expect to find the next Mersenne prime, per Poisson.[/QUOTE]

:tu:

The date of the 54M milestone should be January [B]5[/B], 2015, rather than the 2nd.

[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;391690]The date of the 54M milestone should be January [B]5[/B], 2015, rather than the 2nd.[/QUOTE]I concur, if UTC is being upheld.

[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;391690]The date of the 54M milestone should be January [B]5[/B], 2015, rather than the 2nd.[/QUOTE]Ah, I see Madpoo poached the remaining exponent on 5-1-2015.