>Actually, now that the exponent for M38 is known, I can say
>that I had narrowed it down to 5 candidates (7 before the
>Oregonian article). They were:
> 5,750,881 6,382,513 6,836,327 6,972,593
> 7,143,163 7,213,391 7,310,981
George's original message said it was in the 6,000,000s so
that would limit it to three candidates.
If you noticed that the only range in the "Mersenne Exponent
Test Distribution Map" that didn't agree (it said there was
one more) with with the cleared exponents list was the range
6,900,000 - 7,000,000 then that would have limited it to one
exponent.
Herb Savage
>These were the only exponents that were no longer being
>worked on in one form or another, and was not listed on the
>cleared exponents list, for that time frame...
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