GGNFS questions and Answers

[asl]

Originally Posted by CedricVonck

Can the following number be re-written as a SNFS job?

(71·10^160-17)/9
= 89 · 3491 · 78791 · 163337 · 494927 · 20992251737· 25597988189016413 ·
Can anyone please give a good example of a job file?

The simplest way will be to choose f(x)=71*x^5-17 and g(x)=x-10^32.

[trilliwig]

Originally Posted by smh

I'm wondering why the script uses parameters which are specified for a difficulty of 153 though.

The default parameters assume a polynomial degree of 5. If the polynomial degree is not 5, more generous parameters usually perform significantly better.