Hi Jeroen

According to the Cunningham tables:

2^101-1 = 7432339208719 * 341117531003194129
2^101+1 = 3 * 845100400152152934331135470251

Are you sure you did not select the "+1" option by mistake ?

Regards

Alan Powell


At 06:30 AM 5/25/01, you wrote:
>Stage 1 complete. 25964568 transforms, 1 modular inverse. Time: 59.738 sec. 
>(27838040173 clocks)
>P101 has a factor: 3
>Cofactor is a probable prime!
>
>If my calculations are correct 2^101-1 = 2535301200456458802993406410751
>To check if this is divisible by 3 add al digits and check if the sum is divisible by 
>3
>Total of digits is 112 so 3 is not a factor.

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