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 <meeke...@verizon.net> 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 <meeke...@verizon.net> > 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 < <johnkcl...@gmail.com> >> johnkcl...@gmail.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
