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Hrmmmmm, sounds verrrryyyy interesting...
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According to the status page, if this is legit, we should be finding
another mersenne prime very soon... Anyone smell a troll???
-Chuck
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Alan Simpson wrote:
>
> 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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