Success?... (M46 related)

[jrk]

The user also has quite a few "Bad" results and many unverified results with error codes.

[Kevin]

Unless somebody in the next hour volunteers a faster computer, I'll put all 4 cores of my Q9550@2.80GHZ on a double-check.

[joblack]

Do you have the exponent ... well please post it.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by joblack

Do you have the exponent ... well please post it.

I'm trying to keep it somewhat vague in case this is something that slipped through the cracks and would normally not be released yet.

[joblack]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I'm trying to keep it somewhat vague in case this is something that slipped through the cracks and would normally not be released yet.

I have found it but strangely it shows that it was found on 2009-04-12 02:27 - that can't be secret for so long?

[joblack]

Funny ...


No factors below2^68
P-1B1=715000
Unverified LL00000000000000__ by "stigmv" on 2009-04-12
AssignedDouble-checking to "kmd" on 2009-06-04
HistoryB1=715000 by "stigmv" on 2009-03-15
HistoryUID: stigmv/Enter, Mxxxxxxxx is prime! Wd1: XXXXXXXXXXXX, AID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "stigmv" on 2009-04-12

Doesn't get the admin an E-Mail if it hits the jackpot ... this is almost a month ago. Or did they want it to be a secret??

[Kevin]

It might have been a false-alarm.

[joblack]

Originally Posted by Kevin

It might have been a false-alarm.

As far as I know last time they checked it on a faster machine - if I would have a 16-core machine I would have checked it but there are certainly faster machines out there.

Anyway, funny that the guy didn't even realize it *hehe* ...

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by joblack

Doesn't get the admin an E-Mail if it hits the jackpot ... this is almost a month ago. Or did they want it to be a secret??

The admins always ask the discoverer to keep it secret until it's been verified.

One reason, as noted above: it might be erroneous.

Originally Posted by joblack

Anyway, funny that the guy didn't even realize it *hehe* ...

... or else has simply kept the secret.

[joblack]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

The admins always ask the discoverer to keep it secret until it's been verified.

One reason, as noted above: it might be erroneous.
... or else has simply kept the secret.

So with a 100M digit mersenne prime you would keep it secret for years?

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by joblack

So with a 100M digit mersenne prime you would keep it secret for years?

(a) I would, but maybe others would find it harder to do so. (b) By the time a 100M-digit prime is found, we'll probably have significantly faster hardware. (c) As noted earlier, verification of a reported prime would be done on big-tin 16-or-more-CPU systems, so would take only a fraction of the time someone's home/work PC took for the original discovery.