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.org/top.htm
Dammit, this is two weeks too late! Two weeks sooner and the ET will have
received
it in our message. If they detect this year edition and the next year they
will
be surprise by our progress in 9 months: new primes, better physical
constants,
new element (114) and better overall desing of the message!
Yvan Dutil
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