At 06:49 PM 1999/06/03 -0700, Paul Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 08:47 PM 6/2/99 Ken Kriesel wrote:
>
>>The EFF requires that they approve the specific publication and referee
>>process
>
>...otherwise the newly discovered Mersenne Prime isn't "officially" a
>Mersenne Prime? Fascinating
At 08:47 PM 6/2/99 Ken Kriesel wrote:
>The EFF requires that they approve the specific publication and referee
>process
...otherwise the newly discovered Mersenne Prime isn't "officially" a
Mersenne Prime? Fascinating! (Or is this just for the prize?)
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Foghorn Leghorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is great news for the project--it should raise morale after the
> version 17 bug.
What "version 17 bug"?
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At 07:13 PM 1999/06/02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Presumably a statement of fact in a news column in, e.g., "Nature"
>is sufficient, rather than a full-blown paper. For that, all that would
>appear to be needed is the number, the names of the discovery
>and verification teams, dates and p
>Hi all!
>
> The 38th Mersenne prime was *probably* discovered today. The exponent
>is in the 6,000,000s (the prime is in the neighborhood of 2,000,000
>digits).
This is great news for the project--it should raise morale after the version
17 bug. It has been a long time (almost a year an
On 1 Jun 99, at 21:26, George Woltman wrote:
> The 38th Mersenne prime was *probably* discovered today. The exponent
> is in the 6,000,000s (the prime is in the neighborhood of 2,000,000 digits).
> The discoverer is a member of the top 200 contributors according to
> http://www.mersenne.o
> And now the bad news. Since the EFF award requires publication
>of the result in a refereed academic journal, the publication process
>will take longer than normal. It could be a few months.
I sugest you send a letter to Nature or Science. The review process is
probably one of the short
At 09:26 PM 6/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all!
>
> The 38th Mersenne prime was *probably* discovered today. The exponent
>is in the 6,000,000s (the prime is in the neighborhood of 2,000,000 digits).
>The discoverer is a member of the top 200 contributors according to
>http://www.mersenne.or
George Woltman wrote:
>
> The 38th Mersenne prime was *probably* discovered today. The exponent
> is in the 6,000,000s (the prime is in the neighborhood of 2,000,000 digits).
Wow! Finally, we've been waiting for this for months now!
Congratulations to George, Scott and the discoverer!
Hi all,
One more thing, thankfully this was not an exponent that was
originally tested by the buggy version 17.
Best regards,
George
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Hi all!
The 38th Mersenne prime was *probably* discovered today. The exponent
is in the 6,000,000s (the prime is in the neighborhood of 2,000,000 digits).
The discoverer is a member of the top 200 contributors according to
http://www.mersenne.org/top.htm
As was agreed after the
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