Richard Woods wrote: > Perhaps you were led astray by a common practice in the Mersenne number > community: we typically refer to numbers by their power-of-2 exponents. That > is, M43112609 does not refer to the prime number 43,112,609; it refers to the > prime number which is 2 to the 43112609th power minus 1 (which has 12,978,189 > decimal digits when written in decimal form). >
For George, the first *very few* digits of the number that won the $100,000 prize are here: http://prime.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/prime/m42643801/prime-c.html ... and that page has omitted 12,814,284 digits. If you want to see the ENTIRE number that won the $100,000 prize, it's a 16 megabyte download located here: http://prime.isthe.com/no.index/chongo/merdigit/long-m42643801/prime-c.html Jeff Woods (no relation) _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
