On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:15:56AM -0500, Jabari Zakiya wrote: > Yes, I am fully aware of what GIMPS is, and have been running primes95 for > over 8 years on variuos computers. But all you're doing is finding smaller > primes to use as exponents to find the Mersenne primes.
No. Actually checking (deterministically) that the exponent is prime takes a split second, if not less. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
