After a long and agonizing wait, I have finally received Official (TM) permission from the International Bacclaureate Organization to post my Mersenne Primes extended essay on the Internet. (Copyrights stink. Then again, they did give me an A.) Now that it's all legit, it's back on the Internet at http://homepages.go.com/~joekorovin/Mersenne.html (so the www.mersenne.org link isn't broken anymore, yay), and in a much nicer HTML form provided by Barry Brake. Things have changed since Nov. 1999; I no longer believe that there's a hidden Mersenne prime (although it was sure fun to suggest), but I still remain reasonably convinced about the validity of my conjecture. Stephan T. Lavavej _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt