Recent content by wgarnett

Hi, This is a search for the largest "proth" prime; primes of the form k*2^n+1 It would be the 5th largest prime number overall. Seveenteen or Bust searches for proth primes too, but its focus is to find one prime for each of the 17 remainding k values (now 16 remainding). It's not concerned...

Hello everyone, I am recruiting members for my prime number search. Over at: http://www.williamgarnett.net/ you can find all the information about my project. The results of the group are posted also. We have already found prime #21 (formerly prime#15), and are going for #5 (largest "proth"...

Hi, I am running a new distributed computing search at: http://www.williamgarnett.net for new prime numbers to make it at Chris Caldwell's top 5000 list. I would like all of you that have Athlon processors to please join. The program runs fastest on the Athlon processor as opposed to the...