Well, this is a wayward earth-vexing waste of resources!
 

This exponent was completed by someone else inexplicably. Was it a mistake? Can the somebody please explain?

[URL]http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=33440027&full=1[/URL]

This was assigned 66.3 days ago to my computer tansen. It has communicated regularly with Primenet updating its completion date. Finally completed today. But the exponent was already verified. :furious:

[QUOTE=garo;390864]This exponent was poached inexplicably.[/QUOTE]

Read the assignment rules page: [url]http://www.mersenne.org/thresholds/[/url]

Cat 1 DCLL recycles after 60 days. Not sure if this was originally handed out as a cat 2 or not.

[QUOTE=flagrantflowers;390868]Cat 1 DCLL recycles after 60 days.[/QUOTE]

Garo's exponent was 34.4M, that is currently cat 3 territory with 240 days to complete.

It either expired prematurely due to a bug or it was poached.

[QUOTE=Prime95;390870]Garo's exponent was 34.4M, that is currently cat 3 territory with 240 days to complete.

It either expired prematurely due to a bug or it was poached.[/QUOTE]

Are you sure? The linked exponent is 33440027, which is currently cat 1...

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;390871]Are you sure? The linked exponent is 33440027, which is currently cat 1...[/QUOTE]It is indeed but the assigment rules for a CAT 2 assignment say "Assignments are recycled when the exponent moves into the first category and the assignment is more than 100 days old."

Jacob

So the question remains: Was this M33440027 a cat 2 or cat 1 when it was assigned 66 days ago?

On October 14, the exponents below 33519000 were cat 1.

It seems For Research has some explaining to do.

:judge:

[QUOTE=TheMawn;390893]It seems For Research has some explaining to do.

:judge:[/QUOTE]
For Research=chalsall if I am not mistaken.

EDIT: Not accusing him of anything, I'm sure he has a good explanation of what's going on.

Doesn't seem that there is any explaining to do. Exponent expired at 60 days as it was cat 1. They continued to work on it after the expiration.

[QUOTE=flagrantflowers;390899]Doesn't seem that there is any explaining to do. Exponent expired at 60 days as it was cat 1. They continued to work on it after the expiration.[/QUOTE]

Post #5 says otherwise. It was Cat 2 when assigned, giving the user 100 days to complete before recycling even though it moved to Cat 1.