Re: [news] 41st Mersenne prime found
From: Lassi Hippeläinen (lahippel_at_ieee.orgies.invalid)
Date: 06/03/04
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:56:39 GMT
Marcel Martin wrote:
>
> Mok-Kong Shen a écrit :
> >
> > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/it_res/article.php/3361501
>
> I find this paper quite unjust. The name of the discoverer is quoted
> only once at the bottom of the paper and yet, he is not even called
> "discoverer" but "a volunteer at the research project, was running the
> computer that discovered ..."!
> Fortunately (for Findley), there is a press release by Woltman:
> http://www.mersenne.org/24036583.htm
I beg to disagree. Josh Findley let his machine run the code, but it
doesn't make him a discoverer. He can be called a sponsor of the
discovery. George Woltman and Scott Kurowski as the authors of the
software contributed more.
-- Lassi
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