>From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Mersenne: New Mersenne Prime found!! Not yet verified
>>Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:26:59 -0400
>Hi all!
>
> The 38th Mersenne prime was *probably* discovered today. The exponent
>is in the 6,000,000s (the prime is in the neighborhood of 2,000,000 digits).
>The discoverer is a member of the top 200 contributors according to
>http://www.mersenne.org/top.htm
Now that George has publicly announced the tentative discovery, I guess I
can give public congratulations to the finder. I have already emailed
him/her directly.
[snip]
>
> And now the bad news. Since the EFF award requires publication
>of the result in a refereed academic journal, the publication process
>will take longer than normal. It could be a few months.
Ah well, that's life. It took 17 months to find it after Roland's so what
is another small wait.
>
> Tentative congratulations to all GIMPS members for their contribution
>in this exciting discovery!!
>
> Oh yeah, and special thanks to Scott Kurowski and entropia.com.
>We wouldn't have found this prime without his tireless Primenet server work.
>
Wholeheartedly agree with these sentiments, we *all* made it possible, if
we hadn't used up all the small numbers then we wouldn't have reached this
number for a long time yet. If I remember it correctly when I joined back
in 1996 the intention was to test all numbers less than 2.6M before 2000...
A big thanks to Scott as well, without the automated procedures I'm sure
George would be swamped trying to process all the results.
>
>Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:44:10 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Bradford Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Mersenne: Prime, UNVERIFIED
>
>What's the stroy with this prime that Primenet says is unverified?
It just simply means that a number in the 6M range has had a single LL test
which returned a residue of zero. Hence it is probably prime. It now needs
to be checked on a different hardware platform. Only a general announcement
is made at this stage just in case the result is false - how could that
happen? s/w bug, h/w glitch...
The full information is sent to a small list of people.
>
>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 06:03:32 -0600
>From: "Aaron Blosser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Mersenne: New Prime...I wonder if the "islands" theorem will hold
fast?
>
>Once this new one is verified, it will be interesting to see if there is a
>prime either just below or just above it, to see if this elusive and highly
>unverified "island" theory sticks in this case or not.
I was wondering about this myself, might be worth getting a few exponents
in the vicinity of the new number...
>
>While the prize money would be nice, I for one would think it cool enough
>just to find one,
It is...
>
>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 99 14:58:04 CES
>From: "Cornelius Caesar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Mersenne: Re: New Mersenne Prime found!! Not yet verified
[snip]
>
>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)...
Yes I do remember it, now 5.2M is not *so* far away from the new number,
well alright it is xx% away. Why don't we hand out a few assignments in the
17-19m range. I have already done a 20m one which took 10 months ;-)
regards
G
Gordon Spence, Nokia IP Telephony
Applications Engineer Grove House, Waltham Way,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] White Waltham, Maidenhead,
http://www.nokiaiptel.com/ Berkshire, SL6 3TN, UK.
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