Insufficient information for accurate CPU credit.

[retina]

Originally Posted by axn

Unless that line itself is checksum protected to prevent/detect tampering, I can hand edit the values to something ridiculously big*. Now _that_ would be open to abuse.

*Find the largest factor of p-1. Set my B1 = that factor - 1. Then set B2 = 10000 * that factor.
For eg:- 9125624223117137685847-1 = 2*3*13*109*5392193*199056357361
Set B1 = 199056357360 and B2 = 1990563573600000. Watch the credits roll in

Well if PrimeNet-credits == dollars then it might be worthwhile to some people to do that. But currently there is no point to amassing false credit. You'd just make yourself look stupid. Or in my case -- stupider.

[axn]

Originally Posted by retina

Well if PrimeNet-credits == dollars then it might be worthwhile to some people to do that. But currently there is no point to amassing false credit. You'd just make yourself look stupid. Or in my case -- stupider.

Yep

[Bdot]

Originally Posted by axn

Unless that line itself is checksum protected to prevent/detect tampering,

I would not mind a checksum per complete result, not just for the last line. But I'm also OK with the way it is right now. I think it is better to have a successful run (i.e. find a factor) than having the credit account bigger than the factors I find.

Originally Posted by axn

9125624223117137685847-1 = 2*3*13*109*5392193*199056357361

What do you use to factor the (factors-1)? prime95 isn't doing that, is it?

[axn]

Originally Posted by Bdot

What do you use to factor the (factors-1)? prime95 isn't doing that, is it?

There are a number of programs freely available. I used PARI/GP. msieve and yafu can do much harder factorizations.

[Mini-Geek]

Originally Posted by Bdot

What do you use to factor the (factors-1)? prime95 isn't doing that, is it?

Originally Posted by axn

There are a number of programs freely available. I used PARI/GP. msieve and yafu can do much harder factorizations.

Another simple way to do it is to look it up at factordb.com. It does easy factorizations like that near-instantly when you ask for the page.

[cheesehead]

Or at Factoris http://wims.unice.fr/wims/wims.cgi?c...ebra/factor.en