[QUOTE=madderhatter;628023]You won't believe me if I tell you, I don't believe it myself, hence the test.[/QUOTE]

There's no need to be secretive. There are lots of experts here, in both mathematics and programming, who may be able to tell you whether your ideas have merit without anyone having to run a program or write a single line of code. If you're worried about potentially having made a mistake, don't be ashamed to share your ideas; many of us have thought we've discovered something new only to realise that our ideas were either flawed or already known. To err is human, and we all (well, mostly...) learn from our mistakes.

[QUOTE=madderhatter;628023]You won't believe me if I tell you, I don't believe it myself, hence the test.[/QUOTE]

Too much Hg, eh? Now turning Pb into Au?

[QUOTE=charybdis;628027]There's no need to be secretive. There are lots of experts here, in both mathematics and programming, who may be able to tell you whether your ideas have merit without anyone having to run a program or write a single line of code. If you're worried about potentially having made a mistake, don't be ashamed to share your ideas; many of us have thought we've discovered something new only to realise that our ideas were either flawed or already known. To err is human, and we all (well, mostly...) learn from our mistakes.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, probably 95% or more you're right, but this is a learning experience for me and I'm having fun so I might as well keep it to myself until I know for sure one way or the other. Thanks for trying to help!

[QUOTE=madderhatter;628022]" George Woltman's Prime95 program (a.k.a. mprime for the linux version), but that program is not 100% open-source. Prime95 is also only available for platforms based on the x86 processor architecture."[/QUOTE]

For all practical purposes mprime/prime95 is open source. Do the build instructions suck? Most definitely. There is a ton of x86-assembly code involved which make the code only useful on Intel based architectures.

To test new theories and ideas a strongly recommend using GMP. Yes it is not as fast, but that should not matter. You are trying to test new algorithms/theories for correctness, not speed.

[QUOTE=Prime95;628073]You are trying to test new algorithms/theories for correctness, not speed.[/QUOTE]

Happy Easter George et al.

Perhaps sometime around now (yearly) we should also celebrate the Scientific Method. 9^)

[QUOTE=Prime95;628073]For all practical purposes mprime/prime95 is open source. Do the build instructions suck? Most definitely. There is a ton of x86-assembly code involved which make the code only useful on Intel based architectures.

To test new theories and ideas a strongly recommend using GMP. Yes it is not as fast, but that should not matter. You are trying to test new algorithms/theories for correctness, not speed.[/QUOTE]

Ok thanks!