Hi,
>On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Lucas Wiman wrote:
>> I began searching for a factor of this number in mersfacgmp at around
>> 12:10 Central standard time. I thought that mersfacgmp was malfunctioning,
>> because it terminated too quickly, but I was wrong, it had found a factor!
>> 295257526626031 div
Hi Lucas
> Yesterday (and the day before), I went to the Illinois number theory
conference.
> There (2nd talk of yesterday) J. P. Selfridge announced that he would
> give away $1000 US for any factor found of a number which ought to be
> prime (he provided a list). On that list was 2^(2^31-1)-1.
Oopsy. That should have read J. L. Selfridge
-lucas
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