At 03:58 PM 6/26/99 -0400, Allan Menezes wrote:
>According to Paulo Ribenboim's book quoted below by Jud Euler's Constant
>gamma=0.577215665... and working out the number of mersenne primes below
>p=7000000
>in Mathematica 4.0 gives 39.5572 primes, so we must be missing a prime if
>Wagstaffs' right.
It doesn't work that way. It is a global property about the average number of
Mersenne primes, so it doesn't say anything about a particular prime.
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