Stats Update

[MikeH]

So 2008 ends with about 6.5% of all remaining candidates having been removed throughout the year. Truly incredible.

A realistic target for next year is for the number of candidates per million n to drop below 15000. Of course a lot will depend on where PrimeGrid recommends efforts should be directed.

Finding a new prime would make life so much easier.

BTW 2009 stats are now up and running.

http://www.henleyclan.co.uk/sobsieve/2009/scores_p.htm

[vjs]

Pretty amazing...

We are currently testing about half the tests per 1M from here on out compared to the number of tests per 1M we were testing at n=6M.