danny fleming wrote:
>To Whom It May Concern:
>I have devised a method of easily figuring out
>approximately how many prime numbers are before
>a given prime. Here it is: since the natural
>logarithm of a number increases +2.3 for every
>power of 10, the 39th Mersenne Prime, since it
>contains 4,053,946 digits, is the 4,053,945*2.3=
>9,324,074th prime number.
>
All this time we have been wasting, checking exponents, when
alls we woulda had to do is start checking right around 9.3e6.
Sorry Danny, but I fear you are going to suffer a myriad of
smartass relpies over this comment.
{8^D spike
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