On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 12:10:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>A) The 38th Mersenne prime discovered has an exponent in the neighborhood of
>6,900,000.
How interesting, I've been testing an exponent in the vicinity of 6,700,000
for a few months now... Perhaps somebody just beat me to the computer speed?
(Of course, assuming the `islands' theory holds. I won't participate in that
discussion.)
>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.
In other words, it will be reported either very soon (since all new LL tests
go over at least 7 million now) or not in a long, long time (since
double-checks still are in the vicinity of 3.5 million)?
>Time will tell to see if I'm right. :-D Ptoo bad (C) won't be
>confirmed/rejected for a few years.
Guesses are free. I suggest that everybody makes their own guess (in public),
and the one who comes closest gets... errr, well... becomes happy. One guess
per person, no poachers :-) (ie. the one who makes his/her wish first, gets
to `keep' it, and nobody else should be able to guess on the same number.)
(I'll do my guess soon, but I must of course consult the IPS list of factors
and completed LL tests.)
/* Steinar */
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