"Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
> They will, and they're very likely to be artificial.
Umm. I'm moderately familiar with statistics, that's actually part of why I'm not
looking for significance in the patterns. (For one thing, the wole concept of
statistics kinda excludes the possibility of using it to "find the right one", like
some people seem to be assuming they can do. Kinda like the various countries hosting a
celebration for the birth of the 6 billionth person on Earth;) However, I was
suggesting to those actually looking for patterns in there not to automatically assume
they need to work with the set of all Mersenne exponents vs. exponents of prime
Mersennes. For one thing, this will very rarely yield a result that is even a candidate
(As some have found out). On the other hand, this could be a way to check the working
of the conjencture... We can artificially generate this situation, thouhg. However,
small correction: With Mersennes, the Mersenne numbers size is directly propotional to
the exponent or number of bits in the number, so obiviously there's not much sense in
testing the two separately ;)
-Donwulff
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