George Woltman wrote: >4) The discoverers of any Mersenne primes between now and the 10,000,000 >digit discovery. This will encourage an orderly exploration of the exponents >and keep up interest over the coming years. You have anticipated my idea, George. The EFF awards should have been structured this way to start with. Even better would be dividing equally between George, Scott, discoverers of Mersenne <10^10^7, discover of the first prime >10^10^7, and me. [kidding on the last part {8^D ] spike ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
- Mersenne: The $100,000 award for 10,000,000 di... George Woltman
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