RE: Mersenne: LL question

[Hoogendoorn, Sander]

> But what if the mod M comes out to 1 on one of
> the intermediate steps?  Then 1^2 - 2 = -1
> Then what?  spike

Then you will be stuck in a loop, same thing happens when the outcome is
-2, -1, 0 and 2
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