At 01:43 AM 11/5/2001 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >Speaking of which -- shouldn't we be (statistically) really close to finding >a new prime soon?
Yes, statistically. You'd "expect" the next one to be before 14,000,000 and I've got assignments in the 13,000,000 range. However, all exponents have been checked once only to a little past 8,000,000. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Jud McCranie | | | | Programming Achieved with Structure, Clarity, And Logic | +---------------------------------------------------------+ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
