At 01:00 PM 6/18/99 +1200, Halliday, Ian wrote:
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>I acknowledge Euclid's proof of an infinity of primes, cited by Michael
>Clark, but do not see any compelling evidence in this pointing towards an
>infinity of Mersenne primes. The rarity of these numbers is part of what
>leads me to suppose that they are finite in number,
That doesn't make much sense. Numbers of the form 10^10^n are much more rare
than Mersenne primes, but there are an infinite number of them.
> Infinity is hard for us to understand because we are,
>in some ways, only finite ourselves.
Have you been talking to my grandfather? (below)
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| Jud McCranie |
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| "The mind is finite so it cannot understand the infinite." |
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| "It depends on how finite your mind is." -- Jud McCranie |
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