hi,
this is going to sound like an urban myth, but at least from my
understanding, it is not.
A friend of mine is a computational number theorist and she knows some
NSA-types quite well. She told me that they (I'm not sure who "they" is)
have been doing some work on Mersenne primes. She is often telling me
that they are so much more advanced than the "outside world" in
basically every field of computational number theory (among other
subjects).
She told me that they have made some vague statements to her about how
they (this "they" again) have found (at least) two new Mersenne primes.
The exponent of one of them is supposed to be around 5,200,000 while the
other one is around 18,000,000.
Does anyone else know anything about this?
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