Moo_the_cow
09-15-2003, 07:33 PM
With the help of MikeH, I got this information on sieve gaps:
Range=61-62T
Gap size for 1% factor loss: 63378774, range removed: 20281207680.00, 2.03%
Gap size for 2% factor loss: 140429588, range removed: 44516179396.00, 4.45%
Gap size for 3% factor loss: 175943274, range removed: 55246188036.00, 5.52%
Gap size for 4% factor loss: 232356924, range removed: 72263003364.00, 7.23%
Gap size for 5% factor loss: 301646350, range removed: 92605429450.00, 9.26%
It basically says that skipping a range of 63378774 after every factor is found will give a 1% factor loss, but more than 2% of the 61-62T range will be removed.
I think that it would be more beneficial if someone designs a program to skip a range of 0.1G or so since there will be about a
1.5% factor loss but we would get to skip about 3% of the range.
Range=61-62T
Gap size for 1% factor loss: 63378774, range removed: 20281207680.00, 2.03%
Gap size for 2% factor loss: 140429588, range removed: 44516179396.00, 4.45%
Gap size for 3% factor loss: 175943274, range removed: 55246188036.00, 5.52%
Gap size for 4% factor loss: 232356924, range removed: 72263003364.00, 7.23%
Gap size for 5% factor loss: 301646350, range removed: 92605429450.00, 9.26%
It basically says that skipping a range of 63378774 after every factor is found will give a 1% factor loss, but more than 2% of the 61-62T range will be removed.
I think that it would be more beneficial if someone designs a program to skip a range of 0.1G or so since there will be about a
1.5% factor loss but we would get to skip about 3% of the range.