Very well -- I will now predict that the NEXT Mersenne prime we find will
be discovered very shortly (within 60 days, sans verification time), and
will be PRECISELY:
2^7682383 - 1
I say this only because I have that number reserved, and because it falls
within the subjective "Mersenne Island" that p=6972593 makes possible.
(If you take the LARGEST Mersennes, M30 and up, and calculate the gap
between them, you will find that the percentage is .8806259 through
.9850544. Thus, if I arbitrarily choose 87% either way from the current
discovery, this gives an "Island" potential (if such exists) of another
prime possibly between p = 6066155 and p = 7879030. I choose to guess
that this is the lower of the two primes in this island, if it exists,
SOLELY because I'm too stink'n proud to think I might have missed out on
the discovery of a WORLD RECORD find. ;-)
Now, of course, most of you think the Island theory is bunk. Some of you
think it may be conjecture. We'll find out if the THEORY (first put forth
by Curt Noll, IIRC) holds for this find.
At 01:37 PM 7/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
>At 08:32 01.07.99 -0300, Nicolau C. Saldanha wrote:
> >Try the other record holders, there are not too many of them.
> >You can find links to their home pages at www.mersenne.org.
> >http://www.mat.puc-rio.br/~nicolau
>
>Don't worry, I've found it already. Looks like I lost the guessing game...
>
>/* Steinar */
>
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