Brent to your 1-22 post: what trapped me was a negligent way of writing. JCK wrote it right, you repeated it nonchallantly (leaving out the empty space): 2^74207281-1 (instead of correctly: (2^74207281 -1) what really included the (-1) into the wxponent rather than into the RESULT of the raised big number. JM
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > It's to correct your misreading. 2^74207281 concludes ...436352 so > 2^74207281-1 > concludes ...436351 and does not end in zero. > > Brent > > On 1/22/2016 1:12 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > *Is this to vindicate, or abrogate my negative response?* > *JM* > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The number ends in 1 not the power of two, which must end in 2. >> >> Brent >> >> On 1/20/2016 11:49 AM, John Mikes wrote: >> >> JKC: is that so indeed? my minuscule math tells me that if something (any >> long number - or short) ends with a "1" then the* MINUS 1* of this >> number ends in a zero, dividable e.g. by 2, even 10 etc... 22 million >> digits??? >> John M >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:26 PM, John Clark < <[email protected]> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The largest known prime number has just been found, 2^74207281 -1 is >>> prime; it starts off as 300376 carries on for a bit and then concludes with >>> 436351 >>> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
