----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:02 PM Subject: Re: Mersenne: M#39 news!
> ...I would have expected > George's initial announcement to say "over 4 million digits" rather > than "well over 3.5 million digits" (which would nevertheless be > true!). Or he might have said "nearly 4 million digits" which would also have been true. > Of course I could simply be misreading George's mind - > possibly if he had said "over 4 million" it would have narrowed the > field sufficiently to make identification easy. I fear that this may be the case, given what various people have been able to dig out of what has been said. [...] > I would strongly suggest that procedures are changed so that the > next time a Mersenne prime is discovered, no information at all is > released except to prior discoverers of Mersenne primes... As a matter of interest, why should prior discoverers be so privileged? [...] > Irritated Yes, I rather feel the same. It's like enjoying the build-up to Christmas only to find that someone's open your present five days ahead of time. > Brian Beesley Daran G. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
