Well, what's easy to user depends on the user, I'm pretty glad I don't have to deal with a GUI. Having said that, I much preferred the interface of sbfactor for the interface om prime95 (mprime on LInux), and if all the algorithmic improvements are in Georges math routines, I think it' will be quite simple to link those against sbfactor, if we could get the object files.Originally posted by Keroberts1
I believe the reason thqt so few people use the factoring is because of the difficulty of the interface. If it were to have a easy to use interface such as download the program, click the icon, select a range and go then many moer people would be participating.
Actually I have a P4, that could do some work, but it runs Debian Woody (uograding is not an option) which has a glibc 2.2 and mprime is build agianst 2.3, and I don't want to bother with two diffentent interfaces for factoring. (Of course this could be solved by a version of mprime build against glibc 2.2).
Maybe not, but it has a link to an up to date factors.txt, nd as long as you check that (sbafctor did and make_worktodo.pl does) no work will be wasted.Also since I don't believe the link on the co-ordination thread gives out an up to dat .dat file
That's a real problem, you have to dig through a couple of threads here to find it, and when you find something you have to check carefully that it is the newest version. Last time I checked the newest version (which had a fix for tests with n's above 9M, which I would have liked) were only available for windows.or even the newest version of prime 95's factoring code
So my point is: the interface does matter (but there none that fits all), and easy access to the newest version matters too.