Spike Jones wrote:
> Specifically, that we are so processor rich that we can afford
> to squander it on amusing ourselves.
Nope, they will just wonder what they have overlooked that makes Mersenne Primes so
basic to a culture.
YotN,
Henk Stokhorst.
PS. I once saw a TV documentary where one astronomer talking about the Seti proposed
to broadcast the first one hundred primes from Earth since there is no natural source
that can emit them, and they are independant of the numberbase one uses Furthermore
primes are easily noticed as interesting numbers.
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