Re: Mersenne: factoring the higher exponents

2000-12-16 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 15 Dec 00, at 10:39, Henk Stokhorst wrote: I spend the past months factoring the range 16.000.000 up to 17.000.000 form 2^52 up to 2^58. I reported the results once a week, which are included in the database. This week someone else started to work on this as well although up to 2^56. This

Mersenne: factoring the higher exponents

2000-12-15 Thread Henk Stokhorst
L.S., I spend the past months factoring the range 16.000.000 up to 17.000.000 form 2^52 up to 2^58. I reported the results once a week, which are included in the database. This week someone else started to work on this as well although up to 2^56. This work is therefor done twice. What is being