Hi all, Happy news. A second new Mersenne prime has been reported! Verification is underway.
I've asked for the last save file and hope to have it tomorrow. I'll rerun the last few thousand iterations - if that shows this is our second prime in two weeks it is virtually guaranteed this is not a false positive. The first prime has already passed this test. However, to be absolutely certain we always run a verification from scratch using a different program on a different computer architecture. Wow, George _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
