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== Scientific results ==
== Scientific results ==
* https://sites.google.com/site/bearnol/math/mersenneplustwo
* https://sites.google.com/site/bearnol/math/mersenneplustwo These results are referenced on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_conjectures#cite_ref-3

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WEP-M+2 Project is a volunteer distributed computing project that uses BOINC for Mersenneplustwo integer factorization.

Why WEP-M+2 Project?

  • Mersenneplustwo because they’re the most interesting mathematically, especially when it comes to integer factorization.

Goal

  • Mersenneplustwo numbers are those integers that are two more than a Mersenne prime. Mersenne primes are of the form 2^p-1 http://www.mersenne.org/. This makes Mersenneplustwo numbers of the form 2^p+1.
  • WEP-M+2 Project aims to find the factors (ie integer divisors) of Mersenneplustwo numbers.

Methods

  • BOINC is sooooo cool. I originally setup a server on spec because I felt I wanted the extra cycles, and when I saw the first wu’s come in over the network even from just my own little local farm, let alone later all the external volunteers, I was hooked for the next 17 years… :)))
  • The underlying algorithm is released open source at: https://github.com/bearnol/we

Project Administrator

James Wanless

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