Results not showing up in cleared.txt

[dave_0273]

I just went to cleared.txt to make sure that M12704803 was showing up as having a factor (as I found about 2 posts up). However M12704803 was not in cleared.txt. Did I do something wrong when I submitted the results. I used the manual pages. Anyone have any ideas why it is not showing up??

[GP2]

Originally posted by dave_0273
I just went to cleared.txt to make sure that M12704803 was showing up as having a factor (as I found about 2 posts up). However M12704803 was not in cleared.txt. Did I do something wrong when I submitted the results. I used the manual pages. Anyone have any ideas why it is not showing up??

Dave,

Your results are already in the factors database and PMINUS1.TXT (in the October 24 release).

I already checked this for all the results posted in this forum.

[dave_0273]

shouldn't it show up in cleared.txt as well though??

[GP2]

Originally posted by dave_0273
shouldn't it show up in cleared.txt as well though??

In theory, cleared.txt only needs to hold very recent results returned since the last release of George's weekly data files (BAD, LUCAS_V.TXT, etc).

In practice, some old results stick around in cleared.txt long after they've been added to the data files.

The oldest LL-test results in cleared.txt are:


14572163,66, ,0x96FCC960D47A09__,19-Nov-02 00:14,S78380,CD2AD6EAD
10426037,65,D ,0xAE86ECDADD0579__,09-Dec-02 21:21,dswanson,pc1800B
10758373,65, ,0x16598518597045__,14-Dec-02 15:46,dswanson,pc1800B
10790603,64, ,0x8CC61010E63C49__,30-Dec-02 18:36,gpouliot,fw2



The oldest factored results in cleared.txt are:


22778629,64, F,24365599772339391647,01-Sep-03 01:02,ktd,newtl
23278709,60, F,1603498372045038223,01-Sep-03 02:01,wabbit,factoring
23589899,62, F,6136606902296996537,01-Sep-03 02:02,S01103,In-Laws


and a bunch of others from Sept 1.


There's probably some practical reason why some results stick around in cleared.txt indefinitely and others don't.