Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Mersenne primers, please indulge me with this fanciful history of the
> future:
>
> .... Question: assuming a half life of protons of 1E35 years,
> is there enough time for the lithiverse to confirm the 37th mersenne
> prime via brute force factoring, before the decay of protons reduces
> the lithiverse to a wispy quark fog? or will its next idea be
> to start converting lithium to carbon? {8^D spike
So Asimov was wrong about the topic of "The Last Question"?
Let there be primes!
-Gerry
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