popularity of DC vs LL.

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

I always thought the name "LoneMersenneHunters" was funny because you ain't going to find a Mersenne prime factoring! :)

It's actually the same process of finding-by-elimination as by doing LL tests and discarding the nonzero results ... just so much slower that everyone gives up on trying to factor an Mnumber before trying all possible factors. :D