George Woltman wrote: >The 38th Mersenne prime was *probably* discovered today. The exponent >is in the 6,000,000s Do any of you remember this post? If no in-between number will be found this posting turns out to be false (as I always suspected)... > From: "Alan Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mersenne: can this be true? > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 04:38:36 PDT > > hi, > > this is going to sound like an urban myth, but at least from my > understanding, it is not. > > A friend of mine is a computational number theorist and she knows some > NSA-types quite well. She told me that they (I'm not sure who "they" is) > have been doing some work on Mersenne primes. She is often telling me > that they are so much more advanced than the "outside world" in > basically every field of computational number theory (among other > subjects). > > She told me that they have made some vague statements to her about how > they (this "they" again) have found (at least) two new Mersenne primes. > The exponent of one of them is supposed to be around 5,200,000 while the > other one is around 18,000,000. Cornelius Caesar ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
