Re: Mersenne: Mersenne Trivia (was Re: p-1 algorithm)

1999-07-26 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 08:16:35PM -0500, Conrad Curry wrote: >Too easy. >From Monty Python's `The Quest For The Holy Grail' (or was King Arthur involved in the title too?), in case anybody _didn't_ know. (`Look at the beautiful telephøne system...') >Here's more of a challenge, who wrote this a

Re: Mersenne: Mersenne Trivia (was Re: p-1 algorithm)

1999-07-23 Thread Conrad Curry
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > EXERCISE: which movie is the following quote from? > > "...and three shall be the number of the counting. Four shalt thou not count, > nor two, excepting thou then proceed to three. Five is right out..." > > -Ernst Too easy. Here's more of