-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12 May 2001 22:57 Subject: Mersenne: games one can play with genuine composites >Please don't think that I'm picking on Brian - Crandall, Papadopoulos >and I made similar claims about F24 being the largest genuine composite >at the time we completed our machine proof of that number, and were >similarly put in our place by one of the reviewers of the resulting >manuscript. OK, so what is the largest /non-trivial/ number for which no factors are known, but a proof of compositeness is? By 'proof', I mean to exclude the possibility that someone randomly generates a couple of large probable primes, multiplies them together, then forgets them. -Ernst Daran G. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
