On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, George Strohschein wrote:
# Hi,
# I tried to get Mathematica 3.0 to calculate that 37th prime, but gave up on
# my old 60 MHz P5 (Gateway) after about half a day. I then tried it on a 200
# Mhz CPU, but gave up again after about 6 hours. Can someone send me the
# number so I can also print it out in 2 point font and see how big it really
# is?
#
# thanks,
# George
the number is at http://www.mersenne.org/files/prime3.txt, but has line
breaks. if you want to, you can run this command to get rid of the line
breaks:
perl -e "while (<>) { chop; print; }" < input_file_here > output_file_here
i'd send you my copy, but 909526 bytes is a lot over a modem.
-bjp
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