Small n factoring

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O.K. Joe just sent me the B1 B2 values either he or I used in the past for P-1.

B1=64100675
B2=6205033714
The machine I did it on before was a dual P3-866 with a 1G of ram and ecm-5.03-P3

However I just ran another P-1 with slightly larger B1 bounds and a huge B2 on a dual barton with 1G of ram.

B1=100000000 (10^8)
B2=1000000000000 (10^12)

I didn't take long for the B1, I was trying to see how large a B2 I could use. I could potentially use a larger B2 but it would be more benifital for someone else to do the stage1, the above run consumed a max of 1.8G of memory during stage 2 but stage one didn't take much at all.

I have a fast 15K scsi drive on a adaptec card so swapping a little doesn't hurt as much as one would think. I may also be able to bump the machine up to 2G of memory for the stage2.

If there are any takers on the stage1 P-1 or stage1 P+1 I'd suggest a B1 value of
B1=10000000000 (10^10) minimum.

If we are going to try a distributed approach to P-1 I'd even like to see a higher B1, it's sort of the base for the effort. Any takers???