Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #569

[Cornelius Caesar]

Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>My poor PC is right now trying to find the first possible
>10-million _exponent_...
>For now, it _seems_ like  we get 3010 extra digits (possibly +1) for
>each 10000th iteration (of *2)

Not surprising, since log 2 = 0.30102999...
You need to test exponent (10000000 / log 2) = 33219281 or above.

Cornelius Caesar
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