James H's http://mersenne-aries.sili.net utility site.

[Uncwilly]

I could not find a good simple thread for this.

I think that maybe we should have a sub-forum someplace for the handy sites like this and mersenne.info and Dario's ECM applet.


I found and error in the calculations on this page:
http://mersenne-aries.sili.net/exponent.php

echo '<div>has '.number_format(ceil($_REQUEST['exponentdetails'] * log(2))).' decimal digits</div>';

should be:

echo '<div>has '.number_format(ceil($_REQUEST['exponentdetails'] * log(2) / ln(10) )).' decimal digits</div>';

(If my poor Java reading skills are right.

This page: http://mersenne-aries.sili.net/digits.php does the calculation correctly.

HTH

[axn]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

echo '<div>has '.number_format(ceil($_REQUEST['exponentdetails'] * log(2) / ln(10) )).' decimal digits</div>';

if a language has both log and ln, then first one will be base-10 log and second one will be natural log. In which case, log(2) is sufficient. OTOH, may be you typoed and meant log(2) / log(10)?

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by axn

if a language has both log and ln, then first one will be base-10 log and second one will be natural log. In which case, log(2) is sufficient. OTOH, may be you typoed and meant log(2) / log(10)?

Here is the code that works on the other page that I referred to:

<script type="text/javascript">
	function DigitsExp() {
		document.getElementById('digits_text_input').value  = Math.ceil(document.getElementById('exponent_text_input').value * (Math.log(2) / Math.LN10)); // log(2, 10) = 0.301029995664
	}
	function ExpDigits() {
		document.getElementById('exponent_text_input').value = Math.floor(document.getElementById('digits_text_input').value / (Math.log(2) / Math.LN10)); // log(2, 10) = 0.301029995664
	}
</script>

Since I don't know Java or JS, I was just trying to guess.

[axn]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Here is the code that works on the other page that I referred to:

<script type="text/javascript">
	function DigitsExp() {
		document.getElementById('digits_text_input').value  = Math.ceil(document.getElementById('exponent_text_input').value * (Math.log(2) / Math.LN10)); // log(2, 10) = 0.301029995664
	}
	function ExpDigits() {
		document.getElementById('exponent_text_input').value = Math.floor(document.getElementById('digits_text_input').value / (Math.log(2) / Math.LN10)); // log(2, 10) = 0.301029995664
	}
</script>

Since I don't know Java or JS, I was just trying to guess.

Okay. Gotcha. In which case, it would be log(10) (w/o looking at the language, which, btw, appears to be PERL PHP). LN10 is a predefined constant jn JS, and not a function call.

EDIT:- I am, of course, talking about "echo '<div>has '.number_format(ceil($_REQUEST['exponentdetails'] * log(2) / ln(10) )).' decimal digits</div>';" thing.

EDIT2:- PHP log function takes an optional base argument, so log(2, 10) would be the way to go.

EDIT3:- Or better yet, use log10(2)

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Here is the code that works on the other page that I referred to:

<script type="text/javascript">
	function DigitsExp() {
		document.getElementById('digits_text_input').value  = Math.ceil(document.getElementById('exponent_text_input').value * (Math.log(2) / Math.LN10)); // log(2, 10) = 0.301029995664
	}
	function ExpDigits() {
		document.getElementById('exponent_text_input').value = Math.floor(document.getElementById('digits_text_input').value / (Math.log(2) / Math.LN10)); // log(2, 10) = 0.301029995664
	}
</script>

Since I don't know Java or JS, I was just trying to guess.

JS was my first code outside of html, however i never got really into it without making pointless fancy functions that changes the background color on timers etc. I'll look in my dynamic html book I know what most if not all of it means.

[Uncwilly]

I saw Chalsall's post over here: http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=17049

So, I decide to go over and submit all of the results I had lying around.

It does not give credit for factors it already knows about.

And I broke the website.
I submitted this Factor5 result:

Trial-factoring M11111111111111111111111 in [2^1, 2^100-1]
M11111111111111111111111 has a factor: 5246666666666666666666614201 - Program: L5.0x
M11111111111111111111111 has 1 factors in [2^1, 2^100-1].

And this is what it now thinks the exponent is: 4,294,967,295