[QUOTE=S00113]I didn't get that one?[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(drug_culture)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(drug_culture)[/URL]

[QUOTE=S00113]I flew an airplane alone for the first time. No instructor, just me. Me by myself up in the air in a Piper Tomahawk. From takeoff to landing. A very important milestone on the way to a pilots licence. :smile:[/QUOTE] Yes, I know. I know several pilots, been to [URL="http://www.airventure.org/"]Airventure[/URL], and eaten a "hundred dollar hamburger" or two.

Just had my very last exam.

I'm a free man now.

Alex

[QUOTE=akruppa]Just had my very last exam.

I'm a free man now.

Alex[/QUOTE]

Congratulations!!! Nicely done.

Do you have any plans?

Actually, yes. I visited Paul Zimmermann in November (Torbjorn Granlund was there, too) in Nancy. I did not yet have any particular plans back then, so he arranged a PhD position for working out algorithmic improvements to ECM. We have a bunch of ideas for stuff we'd like to try out. I hope I'll get accepted for the position, if I am, I'll pretty much do what I've done all along: hacking GMP-ECM, except fulltime and getting paid for it! :w00t:

Alex

Oh, and this is my 1024th post! :showoff:

[QUOTE=akruppa]Just had my very last exam.

I'm a free man now.

Alex[/QUOTE]
congratulations from Italy :bow: :bow: :bow:
Pierpaolo

[QUOTE=akruppa]
I'm a free man now.
[/QUOTE]

Alas, I am still struggling under the yoke of the merciless GE gods... But my hope is that it will be over by the end of 2006.

I just discovered my 10th Top-5000 prime, thanks to Riesel Prime Search project.

918332415*2^364130-1 is prime, and it's 109624 digits large.

:banana:

S207114 0.000 0 113.239 101 1437.65
crossed 100 on both lines -_-

10 000
 

Just passed 10 000 hrs/day :banana:
[code]
Account ID LL P90* Exponents Fact.P90 Exponents P90 CPU
CPU yrs LL Tested CPU yrs* w/ Factor hrs/day
-------------- ------- --------- -------- --------- -------
jxc 2934.23 614 36.339 29 10016.3
[/code]

(quasi-repdigit) twin primes
 

(13*10^3883+23)/9 and (13·10^3883+41)/9 are proven prime!

I discovered my second [URL="http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=77901"]second Top5000 prime[/URL] :)


(hm, I cannot understand why this 'unverified' prime is the only listed on [URL="http://primes.utm.edu/bios/page.php?id=898"]my page[/URL]. The [URL="http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=77869"]first prime[/URL] I found isn't even in my "All of this person's primes" page.)