At 08:30 AM 1/12/99 -0500, Alexey Guzeev wrote:
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> Ok, George's programs looks for only for factors of M(n) in form
>1) 2kn+1
> that's clear why
>2) 1,7,17,23,31,41,47,49,71,73,79,89,97,103,113,or 119 modulo 120
> but this is not. Why factors 120k+13 are not considered? Or 120k+19? Why
>only those 16 reminders of
>~30 primes below 120?
Only primes of the form 2kn+1 can divide 2^n-1.
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