>i thought of a good reason to have enormous prime numbers:
>we would use them to impress extraterrestrial intelligences, should
That is indeed a great idea!
> they may call them something else, such as
>freemblookum primes,
actually they call them du=fjxxqr'eowcs-ss, although
I never heard them say it.
No serious, don't you think that in a few years some
mathematic will come up with a way to calculate
which primes are mersenne primes? I mean without the
need to test all primes. And what will happen if he
hears about all those thousands of suckers who spent
lots of computers and power searching for them?
Floris.
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