> > dont know what this will do for modern mathematics....
>
> i thought of a good reason to have enormous prime numbers:
> we would use them to impress extraterrestrial intelligences, should
> we ever manage to contact them. ...
there is also the possibility that there are exocivilizations that are
more advanced than ours technologically and computationally but
that never did discover the lucas lehmer algorithm. they would
pull their antennae out trying to figure out how we computed the
larger mersennes. {8^D spike
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