Well, looks like factoring on TI calculators won't be feasible or useful. :-(
Before more data comes in, I'd like to state that I believe three things:
A) The 38th Mersenne prime discovered has an exponent in the neighborhood of
6,900,000.
B) We *are* missing a Mersenne prime between 3021377 and the 38th discovered
prime (all that's been disclosed about it is that it has an exponent between
6 and 7 million). I believe that this missing prime's exponent is in the
neighborhood of 4,700,000.
C) The exponent of the Mersenne prime that wins the EFF decamillion digit
prize will either be just at the limit (33.22 million) or it will be in the
neighborhood of 48 million.
Time will tell to see if I'm right. :-D Ptoo bad (C) won't be
confirmed/rejected for a few years.
S.T.L.
(June 19, 1999)
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