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Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> writes:
> I was referring to the primes up to a high number, where another, higher 
> limit didn't work.

Yes, I think they set a limit at the point where even the fancy
algorithm would take too long for the computing resources they were
willing to put into a web query.