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P-1 B1/B2 selection with "Test=" vs "Pfactor="
Why is it that the B1/B2 bounds selected are so vastly different with the same exponent on the same machine if the P-1 test is invoked with these two different lines?[code]Pfactor=79299821,72,1
Test=79299821,72[/code]The Pfactor line gives[quote]B1=395000,B2=8295000, chance = 3.84%[/quote] The Test line gives[quote]B1=835000,B2=21918750, chance = 5.13%[/quote] Why would Prime95 select such vastly-different bounds for the two testing methods? Whether a LL is going to be performed immediately afterwards shouldn't make any difference... should it? |
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Pfactor=79299821,72,0 The answer lies in whether a factor would save one test or two. |
Indeed...
Pfactor=79299821,72,0 gives the same result as Test=79299821,72 Now I better understand the documentation:[quote]Pfactor=exponent,how_far_factored,has_been_LL_tested_once[/quote] |
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