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.

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