At 06:03 PM 6/24/99 -0400, lrwiman wrote:
>This would put the 38th mersenne at ~2.6million, the 39th at
~3.9million,
>and the 40th at 5.7million.
It doesn't work quite that way. It is a global property that doesn't say
anything about the individual Mersenne primes, just as the Prime Number Theorem
applies to the distribution of primes as a whole, but doesn't tell you about
individual primes.
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