On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Halliday, Ian wrote:
> Some considerable while back, there was a lively discussion as to the
> _total_ number of Mersenne primes. I still believe that the number is
> finite, in contrast to what appears to be the majority view: that there is
> an infinity of Mersenne primes out there waiting to be discovered.
Forgive me if this has been asked M38 times already, but why do you
believe there are only finitely many Mersenne primes?
I know several arguments in favor of there being infinitely many
of them but have never seen an argument for the opposite point of view.
[]s, N.
http://www.mat.puc-rio.br/~nicolau
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