[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, everybody. As usual I'm quoting different people. Disturbingly, I
> noticed a weird HTML tag on my last E-mail. I can assure you I didn't put it
> there, and don't know why my software's acting up on me (because I've never
> seen that jibberish before). HTML mail is evil, only second to MIME. Long
> live ASCII! Please excuse my delay in sending this message.
I'm going to play clueless here, and without so much as a scientific reasoning
note that since "we all know" composite exponents can't yield a Mersenne prime...
is it somehow possible to "factor" this into any estimate on where the next
Mersenne prime is? The most obivious way to play with this would seem to be to
deal with a set of only the prime Mersenne exponents for the statistical play.
However, I'm going to leave that for somebody else to dissect and blow apart as
to why it wouldn't work, or try out on their statistical software. Other thoughts
are trying the statistical approach either on the exponent itself, or the length
of the whole expanded number, both within the set of all Mersenne numbers and
only Mersenne numbers with prime exponents. And see if any patterns turn up.
Okay, so admittedly this is just shooting in the blind, but I thought that's what
prime-searching was about ;) (Personally, I don't believe there's any
predictability to them)
-Donwulff
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