Just wondering.......

[smh]

Why are no new tests assigned for K=44131 :confused:

Is another primility test in progress? :cool:

[Mystwalker]

Too early for the weekly prime sensation... :D

[Vato]

It is the same symptom as the previous 2 finds.
So we can hope!

[smh]

I didn't see that before it was announced there was a prime.

Hope it's another one, although it can make the next find take a lot longer.

If another one is found, then the primes are found earlier then is expected.

[Firebirth]

Well... did anybody expect that kind of CPU-firepower we have at the moment? :cheers:

It would be fascinating to find two such big primes so (relatively) close to each other. Perhaps we should define them twin sierpinski primes :rotfl:

[smh]

Well... did anybody expect that kind of CPU-firepower we have at the moment?

With early i meant low N, not that it's so soon after the others.

And if (it's just a wild assumption, only based on something that could be a bug in one of the update scrips) there is a prime, there is a fairly large range it can be in, so it doesn't have to be close to the last one.

[jjjjL]

and here i thought people might not even notice that we weren't assigning new n values. :rolleyes: needless to say, look for my next thread. ;)

-Louie

[Mystwalker]

Ok, smh, you were right... :notworthy

[smh]

It's surpising that nothing gets un noted on the internet. This time it was me, but i remember a couple of years back when GIMPS found one of their primes (their 3rd i think). It was on the primenet status page for a short while before it was removed from there until it was verified on different hardware with different software (and hard/software were a bit slower that time so it took a bit longer).

Members from the GIMPS mailing list digged through various log files to find out which number was the lucky one.

[Vato]

I jumped the harsh gun of impatience... :)

[smh]

22699 and even more 67607 are values of K with a low weight.

A lot of N's are divisible by low prime numbers, so there are less numbers to test.

Of course, all the remaining numbers have a low weight.

you can calculate the weight of a proth number on this (http://www.brennen.net/primes/ProthWeight.html) site

[Mystwalker]

Maybe (and really only maybe) k=22699 is the next one. It's n value is 1,500 behind the highest upper bound. That means either there have been no further pendings or those are already returned - which i doubt, to be frank.
Third possibility: They are withholded - by error or knowlingly (or maybe a stats error?)...

I just compared the momentary pending stats to those 15 minutes ago:
All running k's (except 22699 and 69109) increased the upper bound by ~200-650 - so 1,500 is quite a big gap...

69109 has to make a 700 jump, but I think that's still within range...

Of course, that can change and I'm wrong, I just want to create some tension. :D
Plus, it's a unique chance to become a SB fortune teller. Fear me, Nostradamus! :jester:

[Mystwalker]

False alert. :cry: