On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 11:10:29AM -0400, Darxus wrote:
> Can somebody give me the last few digits of the decimal expansion of
> (2^6972593)-1 so that I can verify my copy's intact ?
gp (also know as pari) is a good tool for this...
$ gp
GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.0.17 (beta)
[snip]
(08:21) gp > ((2^6972593)-1)%10000000000
%1 = 2924193791
This took no time at all to calculate. Whereas calculating the
complete decimal expansion took ages...
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