At 09:40 AM 9/30/01 -0700, Milton Brown wrote: > >Do I understand correctlythat you object to my keeping >my own database and making it available? Absolutely not. An additional database would be a fine addition. I am not sure which of the lines I wrote which you read between, that stated I objected to your keeping a database, oh well, I guess my ignorance shows. Jim. >----- Original Message ----- >From: <jfoug@...> >To: <primenumbers@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 9:30 AM >Subject: [PrimeNumbers] Re: Prime GAP of 82794 > > >> Why is it "deficient" Milton? Because this example does not fit? >> Well there is not that much special about your find. Yes, it is >> outside of the normal bounds a little, but not too far outside those >> bounds for numbers as large as you are working with. For a pair of >> numbers this size, you need a gap of over 115000 to qualify for Pauls >> list. I see nothing wrong with that, your numbers simply are not >> special enough. You will probably have a hard time finding gaps >> which work if ALL you do is search 10^n-k to 10^n+j. A search like >> you are doing is no better than simply starting at 10^n+1 and >> proceeding forward to 10^n+3, 10^n+5, ... until you find a gap of >> sufficient size. This is a very slow method of search, and for you >> to limit yourself to 10^n-k to 10^n+j you have doomed yourself to this >> method. The method I described in earlier emails can speed up this >> searc by a factor of (D-1) and with D being 10 or more, that means >> that you can search up to 9 times faster. >> >> --- In primenumbers@y..., "Milton Brown" <miltbrown@e...> wrote: >> > >> > Your database seems to be deficient, and its >> > not even published. I think I will make my own. >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Paul Leyland" <pleyland@m...> >> > To: "Milton Brown" <miltbrown@e...>; <primenumbers@y...> >> > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 2:00 AM >> > Subject: RE: [PrimeNumbers] Prime GAP of 82794 >> > >> > >> > >> > > There are no prime numbers between >> > > >> > > 10^5020+47311 >> > > >> > > and >> > > >> > > 10^5020-35483 >> > > >> > > yielding a prime GAP of 82794 (or 82795). >> > >> > I make 82794/ln(10^5020+47311) about 7.163. >> > >> > Well short of the 10.0 needed to get on my top-20 page. The latter, >> > BTW, is now under construction and I hope to make it public within >> > a day or two. >> > >> > Paul

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