My vote for "Most Inane" would be to the guy a year or two ago who claimed to know for an absolute certainty that there were only, (I think it was) 37 Mersenne primes. Whatever the number was, it was about one more than had been discovered at that point. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Nash [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mersenne: M38, SETI, and other random stuff > > Hi folks, > > As we all impatiently await verification of M38(?) a really stupid thought > occurred to me, so apologies if it's a lot more ignorant than Chuck W.'s > "definitive" post on the subject of GIMPS v SETI, or distributed computing > in general. > > My apologies for being so inane, but I wonder whether the EFF *b*illion > digit prime prize or SETI will happen first, too... > > Chris Nash > Lexington KY > UNITED STATES > ======================================================= > Co-discoverer of probably the 8th and 11th largest known primes. > > ________________________________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
