On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:08:15PM -0400, George Woltman wrote:
Assuming they respond that the claim
is all in order, then we should be able to announce shortly thereafter.
I'm keeping my fingers, toes and hairs crossed :-) Just too bad nobody
else has participated in my guess-contest... That
How large will the exponent be for a 10,000,000 digit prime number?
To be a 10,000,000 digit prime number the exponent must be at least
33,219,281 (which also happens to be a Mersenne candidate).
Has the prime number that was found a week ago been announced on this
list?
I.E. What number was
At 12:14 PM 6/27/99 -0400, Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy wrote:
How large will the exponent be for a 10,000,000 digit prime number?
digits x 3.32192 gives the approximate exponent.
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| Jud "program first and think later" McCranie |
At 12:14 PM 6/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
How large will the exponent be for a 10,000,000 digit prime number?
P will be over 33,000,000 or roughly thereabouts. I'm sure someone can
give a more precise number.
Has the prime number that was found a week ago been announced on this list?
I.E. What
George has announced that the number that was suspected
prime has been
confirmed to be prime by different hardware and algorithms.
Because of
the EFF award money rules, we "GIMPS at large" will not be
permitted to
know what the exponent was, or who discovered it, until an
article has
