I hereby break the chain to confirm we have reached Level 11. This is tied with the first transition for the quickest level transition ever. Given the silly nature of the project, I'm not sure if congratulations or scolding is called for. I guess I'll offer congratulations because I'm sure Bob will be along soon to do the scolding.

Why would Bob (Silverman?) scold anyone?

I dunno about that fastest transition by the way, going from your table of level dates, level 2 to 3 was only 5 days.

[QUOTE=lavalamp;175183]level 2 to 3 was only 5 days.[/QUOTE]

You're correct. Tied for second-fastest transition.

[QUOTE=wblipp;175191]You're correct. Tied for second-fastest transition.[/QUOTE]OK, so we need ten i7s stat to beat the current fastest, I have access to two, who's got the rest?

So why is it that a certain Bob would scold anyone?

[quote=lavalamp;175192]So why is it that a certain Bob would scold anyone?[/quote]

Bob Silverman has strong personal opinions about various subjects, especially "silly" projects. He thinks this, the odd-perfect search and the aliquot sequence project are all "silly", because, in the case of the first two, they are VERY unlikely to find what they are looking for, and in the third case, there is no practical use.

Well the whole universe is silly with no practical use, so I don't see why that's any reason to get in a tizzy.

byroz reports that the first two of those exponents are done with no factors. So 3321930347 and 3321930349 are up to 75 bits, unreserving.

Also I've taken 3321933389 to 77 bits with no factors, unreserving.

I ran 3321931061 from 72 to 73 bits too, no factors, I'd unreserve, but I never reserved.

Finally, I had a play with some SVG and came up with the attached file. I seem to remember hundred million digits prefactor project having a similar sort of graph, so I was wondering if anyone would like such a graph made for OBD that displays live data?

I think that the horizontal gradations are too narrow really, but I wanted it to fit on 1024x768 without scrolling. I might remake it as a bar chart and see how that looks. Even as it is though, I think it provides a good overview of the project at a glance.

Reserving 3321933179 and 3321933193 from 72 to 73 bits-

Luigi

[QUOTE=lavalamp;175363]
Finally, I had a play with some SVG and came up with the attached file. I seem to remember hundred million digits prefactor project having a similar sort of graph, so I was wondering if anyone would like such a graph made for OBD that displays live data?

I think that the horizontal gradations are too narrow really, but I wanted it to fit on 1024x768 without scrolling. I might remake it as a bar chart and see how that looks. Even as it is though, I think it provides a good overview of the project at a glance.[/QUOTE]

Thanks lavalamp, I'm afraid SVG won't work on Linux platforms :-(

What I could do is maintain a monthly report of the status, and show advancements done during 30 days, but IMHO it wouldn't be worth it: OBD has its spikes every now and then, keeping itself seeping for months and then regaaining momentum as the new computers or the software improvements go on.

Anyway, I'm open to suggestions :smile:

Luigi

[quote=ET_;175383]Thanks lavalamp, I'm afraid SVG won't work on Linux platforms :-([/quote]
i opened it fine on ubuntu 64

[QUOTE=ET_;175383]Thanks lavalamp, I'm afraid SVG won't work on Linux platforms :-([/QUOTE]Hm, what browser did you use? I was under the impression that all modern browsers (I don't include IE in the term modern, but that isn't an issue on Linux of course) supported SVG files.

SVG files have worked fine in Firefox on Windows for sometime, so I would assume they also work in Firefox and Flock on Linux.