RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

[Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy]

> There is a point there, but I'm sure there are a few folks who just enjoy 
> the thrill of finding a factor.  There is, we must admit, a pleasure of 
> discovery to seeing
> 
> "Mxxxxxxx has a factor: yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" several times a month that is 
> utterly absent from seeing
> 
> "Mxxxxxxx is composite" only monthly.

Exactly why I do factoring :)

G-Man
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