[seqfan] Re: A new and surprisingly hard elementary number theory question

john.mason at lispa.it john.mason at lispa.it
Thu May 4 21:24:41 CEST 2017


Sorry. Saw now Neil's conjecture.

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> Il giorno 4 May 2017, alle ore 20:47, john.mason at lispa.it ha scritto:
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> Is it obvious that the sequence is infinite and/or without holes? Excuse
me
> if this is an ingenuous question.
> John
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>>> Il giorno 4 May 2017, alle ore 19:50, "Giovanni Resta"
>> <g.resta at iit.cnr.it> ha scritto:
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>> Il 04/05/2017 16:48, Jack Brennen wrote:
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>>> So it might be nice to know two things...  First, is 100,000,000
>>> values of tau per CPU-minute a reasonable run rate?
>> It is difficult to answer since the rate changes greatly depending on
>> the magnitude of
>> numbers and on the CPU.
>> My C program on a single thread on a i7-3930K (thats doing nothing
else),
>> in  neighborhood of 10^12  runs at about  1500*10^6 tau/min,
>> and near 9*10^12  at about 800*10^6 tau/min.
>> Using multiple threads these numbers become 6000*10^6 tau/m and
>> and 3000*10^6 tau/m.
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>>> If so, where should one continue the search?
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>> If my search for the similar sequence A075046 is correct, I've already
>> checked up to  10^13 (which is the limit of my program and also of my
>> patience).
>>
>> Giovanni
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