51.5M - 52M to 2^59

[Xyzzy]

:)

[lycorn]

Up to?...

[Xyzzy]

Hmm...

I guess 2^59... It is taking ~40 seconds per exponent right now...

I just want to try LMH once so I understand the process...

When someone resumes work on a range does work begin from the beginning or from where the last person left off? For example, say I do the range to 2^59... Does the next person do *only* from 2^59 to 2^60 or do they do it all over?

Finally, if someone, for whatever reason, can't generate a worktodo.ini from decomp.exe and nofactor.cmp I would be willing to do it for them...

(I was tempted to just generate all the worktodo.ini files for all the open ranges and put them on the server but I don't know if that would be a good idea or not... Comments?)

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

When someone resumes work on a range does work begin from the beginning or from where the last person left off?

Well, if the last person reported all results and nofactor.cmp has been updated with them, it makes sense to start from where the last person left off. If the last person posts here to indicate where s/he stopped, you could just start from there.

There could be exceptional circumstances -- if you suspected a bug in the program that caused it to miss factors, or if it seems that the last person didn't understand the procedure and didn't process the range correctly or didn't report correctly.

For example, say I do the range to 2^59... Does the next person do *only* from 2^59 to 2^60 or do they do it all over?

If you've properly reported your results, there's no reason for the next person to re-do them.

There probably are a few "holes" in GIMPS trial factoring, but we all can rest assured that the U.S. National Security Agency is re-doing all our calculations in accordance with the No Composite Left Behind Act (NCLBA) of 2001.

[Xyzzy]

This range is done... There were 13,142 exponents tested and 235 factors found...