What does * represent on Recent Results report?

[petrw1]

storm5510	Manual testing	186326311	F	2017-10-24 15:13	0.0	0.0748	Factor: 639998333042400862489 / TF: 69-70
Dominik Radler	Manual testing	189914267	F	2017-10-21 08:49	0.0	0.2034	Factor: 738480182799319135169 / TF: 69-70*

Both are 69-70
Both are first (ONLY) factors from TF
Neither has any LL/DC results.

[Mark Rose]

It means the factoring program stopped without finishing the bit level. It indicates incomplete work if someone in the future is trying to find more factors.

[0PolarBearsHere]

I'll enable that flag in mfaktc if I'm working at higher bit levels for instance. I don't want to spend a long time working through and entire 80+ bit level if there is a factor discovered close to the start. Unless I'm looking for all factors, it's counter productive to eliminating the non-primes as fast as possible.

[storm5510]

An excerpt from mfaktc.ini:

# possible values for StopAfterFactor:
# 0: Do not stop the current assignment after a factor was found.
# 1: When a factor was found for the current assignment stop after the
#    current bitlevel. This makes only sense when Stages is enabled.
# 2: When a factor was found for the current assignment stop after the
#    current class.
#
# Default: StopAfterFactor=0

StopAfterFactor=0

It is my experience that stopping after the current class will place an asterisk in the results, meaning an incomplete test.

[0PolarBearsHere]

Originally Posted by storm5510

An excerpt from mfaktc.ini:

[/CODE]It is my experience that stopping after the current class will place an asterisk in the results, meaning an incomplete test.

Yep. I found that out after being thoroughly confused the first time I saw my stats with it enabled.

[petrw1]

I am using Option: 0... finish the entire bit level for the current exponent even if a factor is found.

I think that if one chooses this option then the credit given should reflect the work to complete the entire bit level; ...however I have noted that I am only getting credit equivalent to the relative size of the factor.

That is, if I am testing bit levels 72-73 and find only one 72.1 bit factor I only get 10% of the credit I would get for finding a 72.99 bit factor; even though my GPU has the the same amount of work by testing the entire bit range.