At 02:36 PM 6/24/99 -0400, Silverman, Bob wrote:
>Regarding the discussion about the distribution of M_p:
>
>Sam Wagstaff's results imply that the expected number of
>Mersenne primes between 2^h and 2^2h is exp(gamma).
>Thus, they DO get progressively rarer.
This sounds right. This corresponds to the c^n law, where c =
e^(log(2)/e^gamma) = 1.47576, which is also in better agreement with the
current data than c=3/2 (and 3/2 has no justification either). I'd put my
money on Wagstaff's estimate.
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