From: Eric Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Mersenne: A few questions
>How large will the exponent be for a 10,000,000 digit prime number?
To be a 10,000,000 digit prime number the exponent must be at least
33,219,281 (which also happens to be a Mersenne candidate).
>Has the prime number that was found a week ago been announced on
this
>list?
>I.E. What number was it?
It hasn't been announced yet... but from what little information
that is available, i.e. The Oregonian newspaper article, the
exponent must be =at least= 6,643,859.
Eric
Eric: Isn't 7 million bits something very near to 2^7,000,00 ?
I think that could be the case. So could we say: exponent at least 6,900,000?
Rudy
From the "The Oregonian" article:
The new number is 7 million bits of information -- or more than
twice as long.
