On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:11:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >In case there is no new mersenne prime found in the near future, we plan to
> >make this an annual event - or semiannual, or quarterly, or however often we
> >can get together.
> 
> Speaking for the California chapter, a get-together to celebrate each new
> prime (assuming we don't run into a huge gap 

By Sod's Law, you'd call a party during a long gap and the next prime would
then turn up.

Unfortunately, similar laws would prevent one from using this effect to
speed up the search, which is a pity :-)

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