Originally posted by MikeH
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    range                      range remaining    factors remaining    factors found/estimated total
 2^45 - 2^46 (  35T -   70T)             0.00%                0.00%            13454/13454
 2^46 - 2^47 (  70T -  141T)             0.00%                0.00%            13531/13531
 2^47 - 2^48 ( 141T -  281T)            56.43%               53.45%             6183/13282
 2^48 - 2^49 ( 281T -  563T)            99.67%               99.58%               61/14683
Seems odd that there are actually more factors in the higher ranges.

I understand that the ranges are getting 2x larger, but still, shouldn't there be less in each successive range? The 2^45 - 2^46 isn't even an estimate and it is larger than the number of factors 2^44 - 2^45.

Also, how do these numbers take into account low ranges (does it go down to 300k, 1M, 3M?) and the prime found since factoring started (k=5359).

Cheers,
Louie