JON STRAYER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As I said, unless there is an intervention or someone just
>> takes it upon themselves to double-check those exponents
>> with software other than George's (the very basis
>> of doublechecking), we won't get confirmation of
>> M37 until 2003.... <sigh>
> So? It's not like we are running out of work.
No, nor will we ever, barring an ingenious mathematical proof that either
a) There are finitely many Mersenne primes (with upper bound or maximum
number of Mersenne primes) or
b) All (or all but finitely many with an upper bound or maximum quantity
for the sporadics) Mersenne primes follow some pattern.
Imagine there turned out to be a link between primes patterns (or Mersenne
prime patterns) and the Mandelbreot set? It's not out of the question. That
thing has interesting additive combinatorics, also doubling patterns,
Fibonacci sequences, and the like hidden in it.
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