Yeah!
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A call to Computer Support:
-- Hello! I have a huge problem! Nothing works!
-- What have you tried so far?
-- There's this dialog: and it says "[B]Press[/B] any key"!
-- Did you press a key?
-- I did, I did!!
-- Did you [B]release[/B] the key?
-- Oh....

Perhaps Ernst could enumerate those posts which would give one a one percent range. :smile:

Hint: (2^p+1)/3 ... is composite.

[QUOTE=Ono;327003]Hint: (2^p+1)/3 ... is composite.[/QUOTE]

Not much of a hint. The largest known Wagstaff Prime is p=~4M (http://www.primenumbers.net/prptop/searchform.php?form=%282^n%2B1%29%2F3&action=Search).

Are you saying that the p in question has a small factor? Again, not much of a hint. About half of the exponents should have small factor.

[QUOTE=Batalov;326742]Yeah, I think so,
...but there's no reason [B]not[/B] to drink twice to that toast! (an adapted Russian saying)

MLucas ETA 37 hrs. (7am EST on Friday)[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=flashjh;326961]Time remaining?

[COLOR=green]_________________________[/COLOR]
[COLOR=green]Mlucas[/COLOR] [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=326742&postcount=182"]ETA[/URL] [COLOR=green]has not changed. Well, ok, it did change. It will be two hours earlier. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=green]It will still be [I]not[/I] official - folks, stop devaluing the word "official"! [/COLOR]
[COLOR=green]How can it be official, if there's no official statement?! [/COLOR]
[COLOR=green]Wait for it. :-)[/COLOR][/QUOTE]

[URL]http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=867[/URL]

And now we have reached the ETA for Mlucas.

And the result is ...... ? :smile:

please release the news!
 

I keep checking GIMPS to see a formal announcement. I hope it is released within the next few hours, otherwise the message might not be picked up properly by the media and it gets lost in the weekend :(... that would be a shame.
(In Central Europe it is 11:39 AM).

The result is affirmative.
[QUOTE]M such and such is a new MERSENNE PRIME!!!
Please send e-mail to ewmayer@... and woltman@...
[/QUOTE]
Email sent.

[QUOTE=Batalov;327015]The result is affirmative.

Email sent.[/QUOTE]

Fantastic! :smile:

Waiting for the official announcement now!

[QUOTE=ewmayer;326529]But that is at best an average property having zilch (or very nearly zilch) to do with the magnitude of any given new prime found.

I will say only that enough data have been leaked in this thread to narrow the exponent to within 1%, without any knowledge of GIMPS server traffic and such. But you have to learn how filter out the obvious noise, and thread sub-discussions which actually take things farther away from the correct direction.

I will explain after the official announcement.[/QUOTE]

After putting together all the clues in this thread, I've narrowed it down to
[CODE]curtisc 58****** C Jan 25 2013
curtisc 59****** C Jan 25 2013
[/CODE]

I'm guessing it is the first one.

[QUOTE=axn;327019]After putting together all the clues in this thread, I've narrowed it down to
[CODE]curtisc 58****** C Jan 25 2013
curtisc 59****** C Jan 25 2013
[/CODE]I'm guessing it is the first one.[/QUOTE]

I thought that "C" meant Composite... :blush:
I guess it means Checked !