[QUOTE=petrw1;176927]Personally I have had several first time LL assignments in the 25-29M range that once completed reported as completing the Double Check. So apparently someone else assigned AFTER me completed BEFORE me. No big deal the assignmed got tested twice and I got credit for one.[/QUOTE]

You can be assigned as a first time test an exponent that had a suspicious error code on the first test. If the test you ran matches the suspicious test you will get the message that you completed the double-check. In other words, poaching is not the most likely cause of this message.

when is prime95 going to finish the lowest two exponents needing doublechecks and move that boundary up a bit?

[QUOTE=henryzz;177475]when is prime95 going to finish the lowest two exponents needing doublechecks and move that boundary up a bit?[/QUOTE]

# Countdown to proving M(20996011) is the 40th Mersenne Prime: 853
# Countdown to proving M(24036583) is the 41st Mersenne Prime: 46,351

# All exponents below 18,000,949 have been tested and double-checked.
# All exponents below 26,181,803 have been tested at least once.
# Countdown to testing all exponents below M(30402457) once: 130
# Countdown to testing all exponents below M(32582657) once: 621

[url]http://www.mersenne.org/report_milestones/[/url]

[QUOTE=henryzz;177475]when is prime95 going to finish the lowest two exponents needing doublechecks and move that boundary up a bit?[/QUOTE]Looking at the rate of progress of those that have most of the exponents between 18M and 19M assigned, that range should be finished at the end of August 2009...

Jacob

[quote=henryzz;177475]when is prime95 going to finish the lowest two exponents needing doublechecks and move that boundary up a bit?[/quote]To what boundary do you refer?

[quote=cheesehead;177547]To what boundary do you refer?[/quote]
All exponents below 18,000,949 have been tested and double-checked.
i have just realized my stupid mistake(always making these:smile:) i looked at the LL test results and saw that George had first time checked the lowest two exponents left
i misread this as he was assigned them for doublechecking

i was wondering why 18000949 and 18000989 hadnt been finished since they have been assigned ages
i now discovered that they were both assigned to starrynte on 2008-12-05 and so was 18001339
how come these three have taken 6 months?
a month might be sufficient

then again 18065809 has been assigned a month more than that

surely a system for quickly processing low exponents would be good
the preferred exponent thing is good but it allows people to hoard a load of exponents and take ages to do the lowest ones

I think starrynyte has forgot about those three exponents. Anyone care to send him a PM? I took a look at exponents in the 18-19M range. There are 42 exponents that remain. I have 5 that should be finished in about 10 days. 99.94 has about a dozen that are being crunched offline and should all
be complete in 10-12 days. starrynyte has 3. Carsten Kossenday has
about 5-6 assigned since Feb. markr just got 3 assigned a few days ago
so should be finishing them soon. shaneamy has a few assigned since
October last which he/she seems to have forgotten about.

Am I missing anyone else?

[QUOTE=garo;177562]I think starrynyte has forgot about those three exponents.
...
shaneamy has a few assigned since October last which he/she seems to have forgotten about.[/QUOTE]I don't think those exponents are forgotten : when I said they would be finished about the end of August it is because I looked at the exponents returned by those to whom those last exponents are assigned. They have all been returning results for other exponents in that range regularly...

If the exponents have not been reassigned it is because the computers crunching them have communicated once a month at least.

There is no reason to be impatient : there are still a few other exponents to be tested, no shortage at the moment ;-)

Jacob

Perhaps they are just OCD like me and want to guarantee that there are no hiding primes in those ranges on the off chance that the first LL made an error that was not reported. Although to be honest, if there are any hiding primes I think they are around the 28M and 35M areas.

For the traditionalists:
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It will be nice to see a few of the milestones fly by.

[quote=ckdo;176903][SIZE=2]Countdown to proving M(20996011) is the 40th Mersenne Prime: 900

That's 9 days for the last 100 exponents...
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[SIZE=2]Countdown to proving M(20996011) is the 40th Mersenne Prime: 800

That's another 9 days for another 100 exponents... :spot:[/SIZE]