At 10:42 PM 2/9/00 +1300, Halliday, Ian wrote:
>This is very serious indeed, especially for those of us who believe the
>number of Mersenne primes to be finite.
Why would any of us believe that there are only a finite number of Mersenne
primes?
>It's a fairly old book in a manner of speaking: in 1981
There's a newer edition, 1994.
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| Jud McCranie |
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| 137*2^197783+1 is prime! (59,541 digits, 11/11/99) |
| 137*2^224879+1 is prime! (67,687 digits, 1/00) |
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