> Does anyone know more about the "400-year-old problem" they mention,
> which would allow us to better judge the likelihood that their method
> is rigorous? (I have my doubts.)
>
> -Ernst
I also have suspicions after reading this.
Regarding the 400-year-old problem, this sounds almost EXACTLY like the
oft-used phrase in all the newspaper articles about me. It has to do with
the fact that Marin Mersenne was born just over 400 years ago.
Why the papers decided it was a 400-year-old problem is beyond me.
But since these wonderfully gifted mathemeticians have come up with this
wonderful theorem and yet still refer to prime hunting as a 400-year-old
problem, well something's wrong with this picture.
Aaron
