2018 project goals

[masser]

Originally Posted by masser

I count 59 (announced) top 5000 primes in 2017 in this thread:

http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=9782

100 top 5000 primes in 2018
50 top 3000 primes in 2018
25 top 1000 primes in 2018
10 top 100 primes in 2018
3 top 50 primes in 2018

Any of those potential goals sound appealing?

It was cool to see all of the primes found by CRUS this year. I hope I am a little more lucky next year.

Progress on these goals was a little like Goldilocks and the three bears. TBH, I hadn't closely examined the project's history when I picked the optimistic targets above. More realistic and informed (but still challenging!) goals for 2019 might be:

100 top 3000 primes in 2019
20 top 1000 primes in 2019
5 top 200 primes in 2019

Do we like top-5000-list-based goals?

[gd_barnes]

Originally Posted by masser

It was cool to see all of the primes found by CRUS this year. I hope I am a little more lucky next year.

Progress on these goals was a little like Goldilocks and the three bears. TBH, I hadn't closely examined the project's history when I picked the optimistic targets above. More realistic and informed (but still challenging!) goals for 2019 might be:

100 top 3000 primes in 2019
20 top 1000 primes in 2019
5 top 200 primes in 2019

Do we like top-5000-list-based goals?

Sure! Those sound good. I'll come up with a new 2019 goals list comparable to the 2018 list over the next week.

[gd_barnes]

We made a lot of progress in 2018 accomplishing the goals that were set at the beginning of the year. We accomplished 6 out of 8 goals set in the first post and 2 out of 5 goals set in the second post.

Look for a new thread with 2019 goals shortly.