In my haste in programming that TI-92 Mersenne factoring program, I *completely* forgot about the special structure of Mersenne factors, of which several people hastened to remind me. :-O I should have known better. I actually did. My memory must be going. (Not to mention my brain drain before this - as soon as I saw the modpwr() function for my calculator, I should have thought Mersenne factoring). So, of course this changes everything. Perhaps it WON'T take 95 billion years to factor a single number. I'll retool my program and test it again. S.T.L. Yup, feeling like a moron. ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
