My dad can beat your dad (was: Arithmetic progressions...)

[Don Reble]

Hugo, et al.:

> I will get a result for a(16) during the next few days.

> and it's still hard to beat the speed of a well written Fortran
> program together with a state-of-the art compiler.
    Oh, I know. My primitive program, written in the backward "C"
    language, plus a decrepit freely-available compiler, took almost
    seven minutes to get a(15) and a(16). You sure are going to show
    me up, in the next few days. >:->
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Don Reble       djr at nk.ca