RE: Mersenne: preventive measures

[Aaron Blosser]

> Factoring could easily be parallelized, since it consists of 16 passes.
> And the total amount of data being transported is very small.

If so, someone build me a paralellized factoring program and I'll run it on
my quad CPU machines.  :-)  *If* that were to happen, would it be possible
to look for factors bigger than the current ~64bit numbers?  Have it run
back and look for factors of the Mersenne numbers....

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