On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Daniel Heuer wrote: > >9999 10^95019-1*10^47509-1 95020 p16 03 Near-repdigit Palindrome > For chris, it seems better to use this form in the list: > > 10^95019-10^47509-1 It will be. I am running these primes through some of the machinery for the new lst, and part of it is a "canonicalizer" which rewrites primes when necessary to get to a more standard form. > Concerning palindrome, why there are no page for palindrome in the top > twenty list ? No one has made the necessary argument--e.g., supplied the list of articles to show they are archivable. This should be very easy to do with palindromes. Chris. BTW: Several have asked how the new database is going. It is going okay, but is behind schedule. The central database exists. In fact the first 5000 of the current list is made using it. I have just about finshed the comment lint (well, a reliminary version) so that hopefully the next update will use it for the rest of the top 5000 (the archivable primes...) Pages for folks to edit their entries are about done. A new newuser system is done (and a new page for those that have lost passwords). Draft bios pages are now done with rough preliminary new top20 pages (for primes, provers, programs and projects separately). A draft server/client pair is done for my reverification of primality (not ready to take on ECPP primes or those needing hints yet!) and it has rechecked about 54000 primes so far. The old lists have been merged (most of them) to make a complete database (this took many hours as comment rule have repeatedly changd over the last 10+ years) so the new list has a memory. But it wll be awhile before I go through and figure out the lifespan of each prime (when it was on the list and cull the never weres). Classes start next week and I have a math meeting in Baltimore the following week so I'll be playing catch up the week after that... So *maybe* there will be parts of the new web pages to beta test by the end of the month. At first we will keep the "codes", then they will fade away... Unfortunately the easiest way to make the change have been to sut it all down a couple months and reawaken with a new system. I have been slowed by having to write transistion programs to make the transfer smooth. (And I wasted 8 week in that darn hospital bed and a few more just lying around when I got out each time--but now I am doing great; but the new system is tar-balled each night so if I get ran over on my way to school it is recoverable if someone wanted it (with a lot of work though!)) I hope to order enw hardware soon to replace my old 200MHz P2 server (primes.utm.edu) with something a little more modern (I primarily want disk mirroring of sometype (RAID, ghost or whatever), speed...) The systm is currently backed up on the Universities main server which is backedup daily, with the usual off site copies... but I want a primary system that at most involves swapping disk. Chris

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