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[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by davieddy

I think all your qualms boil down to obtaining an unbiassed estimate of the probability of the non-zero residue of an unverified LL being wrong.

Okay.

[Mr. P-1]

Originally Posted by Christenson

P-1 is also good work for a CPU; I'm finding factors on average in significantly fewer GHz days than it would take to do two LL tests. You just have to give it a lot (a Gigabyte or so) of memory.

A Gigabtye is good. Mutliple Gigabytes are even better.

But half a Gigabyte per core, or even less, should be quite adequate for someone who wishes to specialize in this type of work.